Word Meaning

Meaning of hatch

- To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
- To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
- To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
- To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
- To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
- The act of hatching.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
- A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
- A bedstead.
- An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- To close with a hatch or hatches.

Crossword clue for hatch

- Bring out chickens
- Cadge lift
- Come from an egg
- Come out of an egg
- Concoct
- Covered opening in a wall or floor
- Deck opening
- Emerge from an egg
- Emerge from egg
- Give birth to
- Incubate
- Opening in ship’s deck
- Produce chickens
- Small doorway
- Somewhat chilly to come out of shell
- Trapdoor