▪ I. hatch, n.1
(hætʃ)
Forms: 1 hæc(c, 3–7 hacche, 4 hach, hachch, 4–6 hache, 5–7 hatche, 6 acche, 6– hatch. β. 1 hec(c, 5 hecche, hetche, 5–6 hech(e.
[OE. hæc, genit. hæcce, less commonly hęc (the umlaut of a before cc being generally æ instead of ę: Sievers §89. 1 Anm. 1):—WGer. *hakjā-: cf. MLG. heck, DU. hek (in Kilian hecke, heck), Da. hekke rack in a stable, Sw. häck. Ulterior history and original signification obscure. The variant OE. forms gave hatch (sometimes hetch) in southern and midl. Eng.; heck and sometimes hack (hack n.2) in north. dial.]
1. a. A half-door, gate, or wicket with an open space above; the lower half of a divided door, which may be closed while the upper half is open. Also formerly, and still dial., any small gate or wicket.
(It is doubtful whether the masc. word in quot. 1015 belongs here.)
| [1015 in Earle Land Charters 393 Of ðam hæcce to Dudemæres hele..swa eft innon ðane hæcc.] 1062 in Thorpe Dipl. ævi Sax. 395 Of þare hlype to þare ealden wude hæcce. a 1250 Owl & Night. 1056 Thu come sone to than hacche. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 335 Þauh ich my by-lyue sholde begge a-boute at mennes hacches. c 1465 E.E. Misc. (Warton Club) 60 Som..lepe over the hache, They had no tyme to seche the lache. 1521 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For hangyng of an acche at Syster Sawyers jd. 1595 Shakes. John i. i. 171 In at the window, or else ore the hatch. 1687 T. Brown Lib. Consc. in Dk. Buckhm.'s Wks. (1705) II. 126 Affairs were come to that pass, that he durst hardly show his Nose over his hatch. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 336/1 An Hatch..is a diminutive Field Gate..only to let a single Beast in and out of the Field..also for Milk Maids to go in and out safely without Climing or going over Stiles. 1700 Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 900 A poor..Scholar begging for some Relief at the Kitchen-Hatch. 1879 Trollope John Caldigate (1880) 17 He..passing by the well-known buttery hatches, looked into the old hall for the last time. |
| β c 1440 Promp. Parv. 231/2 Hec, hek, or hetche, or a dore (K. hecche, S. heke, or hech), antica. c 1456 Turnam. Tottenham 205 Sum on dores, and some on hech. a 1529 Skelton Dk. Albany 155 Go begge a byt Of brade, at ylke mannes heche. |
† b. fig. esp. in proverbial phrase, to keep (set, have) a hatch before the door: to keep silence. Obs.
| 1555 R. Smith in Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 336/2 Seeing God hath given a Tongue, And put it under power: The surest way it is to set A hatch before the door. 1579 Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 53, I wish that euery rebuker shoulde place a hatch before the doore. 1588 Greene Pandosto (1607) 21 Tush (quoth his wife) profite is a good hatch before the dore. 1594 Knacke to Knowe in Hazl. Dodsley VI. 535, I say no more, 'Tis good to have a hatch before the door. |
c. ‘Salt-making term. The door of a furnace’ (Cheshire Gloss. 1886).
† 2. A hay-rack; = heck n.1 3. Obs.
| c 1420 Anturs of Arth. xxxv, Hay hely thay hade in haches vn-hiȝte [Douce MS. in haches on hight]. |
3. Naut. † a. Formerly (in pl., rarely sing.), A movable planking forming a kind of deck in ships; hence, also, the permanent deck. Obs. Hence under hatches = below deck; † over hatch = overboard. b. Now (since deck has become the term for the permanent covering of the hold), A trap-door or grated framework covering the openings in the deck called hatchways. (The phr. under hatches is now associated with the last sense.)
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 179 A lodes-mon lyȝtly lep vnder hachches. c 1350 Will. Palerne 2770 [They] busked hem boþe sone aboue þe hacches. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 648 Cleopatra, He pouryth pesyn up on the hachis sledere. 1495–7 Naval Acc. Hen. VII 177 For x dossen Candell..bought & spent vnder the haches in tyme of Reparacion of the sayd Ship. 15.. Egyngecourte 110 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 97 With theyr takyls they launched many a longe bote, And ouer hache threw them in to the streame. 1530 Palsgr. 229/2 Hatche of a shippe, tiliac, trappe. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 15 The Scottes foughte sore on the hatches. 1552 Huloet, Hatche of a shyppe where they walke, pergula. 1573–80 Baret Alv. H 223 The hatches, or deckes in a ship, where men stand to fight, catastroma. 1581 L. Aldersey in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 178 Vp I went to the top of the hatches. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. xxv. 64 a, Commaunded him to prison vnder the hatches. 1588 Greene Pandosto (1843) 48 The maryners lay and slept upon the hatches. 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, i. iv. 17 We pac'd along Vpon the giddy footing of the Hatches. 1598 W. Phillips Linschoten in Arb. Garner III. 19 They have..cabins above the hatches. 1611 Cotgr., Tillac, the Orelop, or Arloup, or, more generally, the hatches of a ship. 1617 Minsheu Ductor, The Hatches of a shippe, so called because they fall to like an hatch of a doore. 1700 Dryden Ceyx & Alcyone 146 Seas impell'd by winds..Assault the sides and o'er the hatches tow'r. 1762 Falconer Shipwr. ii. 382 Then burst the hatches off. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 298 When..we came to heave the hatches, we found him. 1869 C. Gibbon R. Gray vii, The object crawled along the deck to the hatchway of the hold, raising the hatch cautiously, and disappeared. |
| β ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 3683 Owt of botes on burde was busked with stonys, Bett down of þe beste, brystis the hetches. 1513 Douglas æneis v. xiv. 19 Endlang the hechis lyand heir and thairis. |
c. A square or oblong opening in the deck, by which cargo is lowered into the hold; a hatchway.
| 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §99 He was going to see the covers of the Hatches of forty of the fish ships..nailed down. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 88 Sched. 1, Hatches with open gratings, instead of the close hatches which are usual in merchant vessels. |
d. fig. down the hatch: a toasting or drinking phrase.
| 1931 Amer. Mercury Mar. 357/2 The boys didn't pester her to drink. ‘Down the hatch!’ they said. 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 120 ‘Well, let's shoot a few whiskies down the hatch, and you'll see three,’ I remarked fatuously. 1935 Yachting Dec. 32/2 ‘Down the hatch!’ is a toast well known ashore. 1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 110 That went down the old hatch pretty quick, didn't it? 1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water xii. 272 And so now, down the hatch, and let's..see what we can do with the pudding and souse. 1972 House & Garden Mar. 130/1 Unlike the professionals, who take a small sip..and then spit it out..we, as amateurs, adopted the ‘down the hatch’ technique. |
e. Aeronaut. An opening or door in an aeroplane or space capsule. See also quot. 1948.
| 1940 [see escape hatch s.v. escape n.1 8]. 1943 Coastal Command (Ministry of Information) ix. 89 At 1.55, after the rigger has reported that all hatches are closed, the klaxon sounds. The Catalina moves slowly at first... The take-off has begun. 1943 E. V. Rickenbacker Seven came Through i. 13, I helped Sergeant Alex pry open the bottom hatch in the tail and between us we dumped all that high-priority mail into the blue Pacific. 1948 Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 92 Hatch, a bomb⁓hatch—the bomb-aimer's compartment, at the front of the kite, especially in ‘Lanks’ and ‘Wimpeys’. 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S.A.F. Dict. 246/1 Hatch, a ship term sometimes applied to an opening or door in an aircraft, esp. one in the deck of an aircraft or in the top and bottom of the fuselage. 1962 D. Slayton in Into Orbit 26 We asked them to adapt the entry hatch and convert it into an exit, too. 1969 Times 23 May 1/2 The two craft are linked by a 3 ft. connecting tunnel, sealed at each end by a hatch. |
4. fig. under (the) hatches: Down in position or circumstances; in a state of depression, humiliation, subjection, or restraint; down out of sight.
| c 1550 Dice-Play (Percy Soc.) 21 Ye have..brought your⁓self..so far under the hatches..that ye cannot find the way to rise again. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. vi. (1651) 156 If he be poor..he is under hatches, dejected, rejected and forsaken. 1649 Milton Eikon. xxvii. 511 In this servile condition to have kept us still under hatches. 1678–9 Foulkes Alarm Sinn. 7 Conscience has been kept under hatches. 1710 in Hearne Collect. 7 Mar. (O.H.S.) II. 356 The Whigs must..think the Church under Hatches. 1818 Keats Lett. Wks. 1889 III. 143 It is impossible to live in a country which is continually under hatches. |
5. transf. a. An opening in the floor of a timber-shed or other building, which is covered by a trapdoor; also, the trapdoor itself.
| 1888 in Ward & Lock's Techn. Dict. |
† b. Mining. An opening made in the ground.
| 1671 Phil. Trans. VI. 2099 We sink..an Essay hatch (an orifice made for the search of a vein). 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hatches..used in Cornwal, to express any of the openings of the earth, either into mines, or in search of them. |
6. A flood-gate or sluice. See also quot. 1727–51.
| 1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 8 §1 All the sand, stones, grauell, and robell digged about..the said tin, there to be wholly and surely kept, by the said hatches and ties, out and from the said fresh riuers or water-courses. 1587 [see flood-hatch]. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 326 Hatches, Flud-gates placed in the water to obstruct its Current. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl., Hatches..the word is particularly used for certain dams, or mounds..to prevent the water that issues from the stream-works, and tin-washes in Cornwal, from running into the fresh rivers. 1758 Descr. Thames 60 The Navigation..was impeded by Hatches, Stopps and Wears. 1840 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 187 The water suddenly abated, and we then opened the doors, and let it pour from the rooms as from a mill hatch. 1879 Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 107 The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass. |
7. ‘A contrivance for trapping salmon’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). Cf. heck n.1 2.
| 1826 J. Thomson Etym. Eng. Wds. s.v., A salmon caught in a machine called a hek or hatch. |
8. A wooden bed-frame. ? Obs.
| a 1832 Scott (Webster 1864), A rude wooden stool, and still ruder hatch or bed-frame. |
9. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) † hatch-stead; (3) hatch-man, hatch-nail, hatch-noup, hatch-ring; (3 c) hatch-head, hatch-ladder; hatchback orig. N. Amer., an upward-opening rear door on a motor car (usu. giving access to storage space which can be greatly increased by folding down the rear seat); a car having such a door; hatch-bar, hatch-deck (see quots.); hatch-gate, (a) a wicket, (b) = sense 6.
| 1970 N.Y. Times Apr. 29 81/2 A *hatchback is a combination back-window–trunk lid, hinged at the roof, that swings up to allow maximum access to the trunk space. 1970 Time 21 Sept. 92 The basic list price of the Vega 2300..comes out to..$2,197 for a ‘hatchback’. 1973 Times 4 Oct. 43/2 The coupé, with a fashionable hatch back (the window is part of the boot lid) is pretty and practical. 1974 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 14/2 A ‘hatchback’, or three-door, design with folding rear seat would obviously be more expensive. 1976 B. Bova Multiple Man (1977) iv. 49 Little electric hatchbacks driven by young mothers out for their shopping. 1984 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 10/3 The Escort is one of the few hatchbacks with a genuine Estate version. |
| 1828 Webster s.v. Hatch, The grate or frame of cross-bars laid over the opening in a ship's deck, now called *hatch⁓bars. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hatch-bars, to secure the hatches. |
| Ibid., *Hatch-deck, gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. |
| 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 74 We reached the *hatch gate, with the white cottage beside it. 1867 F. Francis Angling iii. (1880) 89 Some lock or hatch-gate. |
| 1894 Hall Caine Manxman v. iii, The sea..washed the faces of the men as they sat in oilskins on the *hatch-head. |
| 1465 Mann. & Househ. Exp. 201 Item, for iiij. c. *hache nayle, xvj. d. |
| 1785 Gentl. Mag. LV. i. 429 Ventilators..placed at the fore, main, and mizen *hatch⁓noup. |
| ? c 1475 Hunt. Hare 261 Thei myghtt not passe the dure threscwold, Nor lope ouer the *hache-styd. |
▪ II. hatch, n.2
[f. hatch v.1]
The action of hatching, incubation; that which is hatched; a brood (of young). Also in phr. hatches, matches, and dispatches (occas. in sing.), a newspaper list of births, marriages, and deaths.
| 1629 Gaule Holy Madn. 244 A Serpent of a Difficult hatch, and dangerous. 1797–1804 T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 145 These birds make a second hatch. 1859 Darwin Orig. Spec. ix. (1878) 240 Two hybrids from the same parent but from different hatches. 1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto ii. (1876) 15 If she addles all these as she addled the last hatch, I'll forswear keeping fowls. 1878 J. Payn By Proxy I. xix. 217 First came the Births, Deaths, and Marriages... The female mind..takes an interest in the ‘Hatch, Match, and Despatch’ of its fellow-creatures. 1880 Times for Year 1980 1/1 Hatches... Matches... Despatches. 1894 Field 9 June 832/1 There was a good hatch of Mayfly, and the fish were taking them fairly well. 1953 M. Steen Anna Fitzalan viii. 215 Dismissing reviews..Lin turned to what Mummy called Hatches, Matches and Despatches. 1959 F. King So Hurt & Humiliated 128 Glancing through the ‘Hatches, Matches, Despatches’ columns in The Times at breakfast, Emily suddenly interrupted my reading of the Economist. 1966 ‘H. Howard’ Counterfeit iii. 57 He might even be a registrar of births, marriages and deaths—the man who issued certificates for what people used to call Hatches, Matches and Despatches. |
| fig. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 86 Such things become the Hatch and Brood of Time. 1602 ― Ham. iii. i. 174 There's something in his soule, O're which his Melancholly sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch, and the disclose Will be some danger. 1624 F. White Repl. Fisher 297 The canonizing of Saints by Popes is of a latter hatch. |
▪ III. hatch, n.3
Also 7 hache.
[f. hatch v.2]
An engraved line or stroke; esp. one of those by which shading is represented in an engraving.
| 1658 Sir. T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 110 Sculptors in their strongest shadows..do draw their double Haches. 1662 Evelyn Chalcogr. v. 118 The conducting of Hatches and stroaks, whether with pen, point, or Graver. Ibid. v. 129 To discern an Original print from a Copy print..is a knack very easily attain'd; because 'tis almost impossible to imitate every hatch, and to make the stroaks of exact and equal dimensions. 1747 Creed in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 449 Sounds of minute Duration will be expressed by the Pencils by small Hatches geometrically proportion'd to those Durations. 1811 Self Instructor 524 Working in hatches with a middling full pencil. 1855 tr. Labarte's Arts Mid. Ages iv. 180 He uses but few hatches in his shadows. |
▪ IV. † hatch, n.4 Obs.
[a. F. hache hatchet: see hache.]
A hatchet.
| 1704 in B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1867) II. 132, 100 large Hatches or light Axes made pretty broad. 1716 Ibid. (1865) I. 33 To run upon them with their Hatches. 1810 Naval Chron. XXIV. 197 To demand three whale teeth and twelve hatches for their ransom. |
▪ V. † hatch, n.5 Obs.
[? var. of hitch.]
A knot.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 288/2 At a Hundred threds round the Reel..Housewives make a Hatch as some call it, or a Knot, or an Hank. |
▪ VI. hatch, n.6
Curling. = hack n.1 2 b.
| a 1812 [see hack n.1 2 b]. |
▪ VII. hatch, v.1
Forms: 3 pa. tense haȝte, 4 pa. pple. y-haht, i-heyȝt, 5 haughte; 4–6 hacche, 5 hetch, 5–6 hatche, 7 hach, 6– hatch.
[Early ME. hacche(n, pa. tense haȝte, prob.:—OE. *hæccean (not recorded): related to MHG. hecken (see Grimm H 746), Sw. häcka, Da. hække to hatch from the egg. Ulterior etymology unknown.]
1. intr. To bring forth young birds from the egg by incubation.
| a 1250 Owl & Night. 105 Thu..leidest thar-on thy fole ey; Tho hit bi-com that he haȝte, And of his eyre briddes y-raȝte. 1399 Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 444 Þis brid..hopith ffor to hacche or heruest begynne. 1573–80 Baret Alv. H 226 That hath lately hatched, or brought forth..effœtus. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 316 My Hen has hatched to-day. 1879 Daily News 19 Apr. 3/3 Robins and hedge-sparrows are now setting or hatching-out. |
2. trans. To bring forth from the egg either by natural or artificial heat. (Also with forth, out.) a. with the young as obj.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. i. (Tollem. MS.), Whan hire ȝonge briddes beþ newliche i heyȝt [1495 haughte]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 232/2 Hetchyd, as byrdys, pullificatus, fetatus. 1545 Joye Exp. Dan. 2 These..wil sitte their egges and hatche forth their chikens. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 160 You must not take the chickins away as they be hatcht. 1653 Walton Angler x. 189 Barnacles and young Goslings bred by the Suns heat and the rotten planks of an old Ship, and hatched of trees. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) V. 241 In this fortress the male and female hatch and bring up their brood with security. 1890 Spectator 8 Feb., One of them having failed to hatch out a brood. |
b. with the egg as obj.: To incubate.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. lix. 5 [The ey] that is hacchid, shal breken out in to a cokatrice. 1555 Eden Decades 9 Sume haue alredy hatched their egges. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 424 Turtles, or Tortoises..came ashoar to lay their Eggs, which these Sands hatch. 1834 McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 168 No Reptile hatches its eggs. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 4 These eggs are hatched by the heat of the sun. |
3. intr. for pass. a. Of the young: To come forth from the egg. b. Said of the egg.
| 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 849 Why should..hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nest? 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Hatching, After this they put in the eggs to hatch. 1867 F. Francis Angling v. (1880) 178 Larvæ rising from the bottom to hatch out. 1888 Lloyd Pryce Pheasant Rearing 26 The eggs will hatch out in from twenty-three to twenty-five days. |
4. transf. (trans.) Of other animals, and generally: To bring forth, bring into existence, breed.
| a 1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 237 Gedelynges..Palefreiours ant pages, Ant boyes with boste; Alle weren y-haht Of an horse thoste. 1587 Mirr. Mag., Bladud xvii, Would you not maruell then, what monsters now doth nature hatche. 1692 Ray Dissol. World ii. (1732) 7 Hatching..or quickening and bringing to Perfection the Seeds. 1791 W. Bartram Carolina 7 Serving as a nursery bed to hatch..the infant plant. a 1845 Hood To Sylv. Urban vii, Parishioners,—hatched,—husbanded,—and wived. |
† 5. intr. To brood (fig.) Obs.
| 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scint. 62 Thick darkness lyes And hatcheth o'er thy people. |
6. a. fig. (trans.) To bring to maturity or full development, esp. by a covert or clandestine process; to contrive, devise, originate and develop. Also with up, forth.
| 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. 39 Other mennes swette hatched vp you. 1596 Bell Surv. Popery iii. x. 436 Transubstantiation..was first hatched by pope Innocentius the third of that name. 1605 Camden Rem. (1637) 298 He that mischiefe hatcheth, mischiefe catcheth. 1678 Wanley Wond. Lit. World v. i. §100. 468/2 The Gunpowder Treason was hatched here in England. 1778 F. Burney Diary 23 Aug., How I wish you would hatch up a comedy between you! 1873 S. & J. Horner Florence I. xviii. 274 Charged with hatching plots against the State. |
b. intr. for pass. (in to be hatching, orig. from vbl. n., to be a-hatching.)
| 1646 Crashaw Steps to Temple 74 Who finds his warm heart hatch into a nest Of little eagles and young loves. 1654 Trapp Comm. Jer. ii. 2 Treason hatching in his heart. 1741 Middleton Cicero I. ii. 140 The great dangers and plots, that were now hatching against the State. |
Hence hatched ppl. a.; hatchaˈbility, the condition or state of being likely to hatch, or able to produce eggs which will hatch.
| 1781 Cowper Retirement 64 These hatched, and those resuscitated worms. 1863 Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xix. 484 They suspected it to be a hatched rumour. 1916 Experiment Station Rec. Feb. 178 The hatchability of eggs which are produced. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 14/1 Work is involved in keeping data about the hatchability of the eggs from each pen. 1956 New Biol. XXI. 116 There is evidence that the presence of earth⁓worms in soil increases the hatchability of the cysts of the potato root eelworm. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 87 Greater egg production, better grading, increased hatchability. |
▪ VIII. hatch, v.2
Also 5–6 hach(e.
[a. F. hache-r to cut, hack, draw lines upon metal, paper, etc., f. hache hatchet: see hache; cf. cross-hatch.]
1. trans. To cut, engrave, or draw a series of lines, generally parallel, on (a metal, wood, or paper surface); chiefly used for shading in engraving or drawing. In quot. 1598 used of ‘cutting’ a file.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handie-crafts 522 He hatcheth files, and hollow vices wormeth. 1661 Morgan Sph. Gentry i. i. 3 Sable..is aptly expressed by lines hatchid across one another. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 55 This Globular end must be Hatch'd with a fine cut, by a File⁓cutter. 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. 194 Distinguished in the plan by being hatched with slant lines. 1833 J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 82 Having heated the steel..they hatch it over and across with the knife. |
| transf. 1858 Herschel Outl. Astron. vii. §430 (ed. 5) 283 The exterior of another [moon crater] is all hatched over with deep gullies. |
| absol. 1601 Holland Pliny xxxv. x. II. 535 To hach also, yea and to fill within, requireth..much labour. 1669 A. Browne Ars Pict. 101 Before that you begin to Hatch or shadow, you must draw all the outmost lines with a needle. |
2. To inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance; to lay strips or plates of gold or silver in or on (a surface) by way of ornament. (In quot. 1480 with the material inlaid as obj.)
| 1480 Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 160, xij yerdes of clothe of silver hached uppon satyn grounde. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 77 The fether was blacke and hached with gold. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 35, I might enamel and hatch ouer this deuice more artificially and masterly. 1621 Hakewill David's Vow 224 The handle or pummell hatcht or inameld. 1679 Lond. Gaz. No. 1395/4 A Hanger, with a Sawe on the back, hatch'd with silver. 1820 Scott Monast. xvi, The poignet being of silver exquisitely hatched. |
3. transf. and fig.
| a 1556 Harpalus' Compl. ix. in Gilfillan Less-known Poets (1859) I. 129 It seem'd unhap had him long hatcht In midst of his dispairs. a 1613 Overbury A Wife (1638) 218 A Rymer Is a fellow whose face is hatcht all over with impudence. a 1621 Beaum. & Fl. Thierry & Theodoret ii. iii, A fair design..To which your worth is wedded, your profession Hatch'd in, and made one piece. 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, ccxxv, His sword..Hatch't in Blood Royall. 1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost, To State Censor A iv, A Rubrick Story, ach't in blood. |
Hence hatched ppl. a. hatched moulding: a kind of moulding used in Norman architecture, formed with two series of oblique parallel incisions crossing each other.
| 1607 Middleton Your Five Gallants ii. iii, One gilt hatcht rapier and dagger. 1842–76 Gwilt Archit. §397 The most usual ornaments were..7. The hatched. 1846 Parker Gloss. Archit. s.v. Moulding, The Hatched moulding is also not uncommon, and is found early in the style, as it can be cut conveniently without the aid of a chisel, with the pick only. 1868 G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 223 Simple carvings, chiefly hatcht work or straight lines. |
▪ IX. † hatch, v.3 Obs.
[f. hatch n.1]
trans. To close (a door) with a hatch; to close.
| 1581 Sidney Astr. & Stella xxxviii, While sleepe begins with heauy wings To hatch mine eyes. 1608 Shakes. Per. iv. ii. 37 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. |
▪ X. † hatch, v.4 Obs.
[var. of hack v.1]
trans. To hoe (seed) into the ground; = hack v.1 4.
| 1653 Plat Gard. Eden 78 Hatch them into the ground with a rake striken thicke upon them. |
▪ XI. † hatch, v.5 Obs.
[Cf. hack v.1 13.]
intr. To cough.
| 1733 Revolution Politicks iii. 63 His Holiness..when my Lord had gone a pretty way in his Speech, did mimick, hatch, and pretend to be taken with a violent Fit of Coughing. |
▪ XII. hatch, v.6
obs. var. of hitch v.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 239/2 Hatchyd, or remevyd (K. hichid, S. hychyd), amotus, remotus. |