These are the meanings of the letters AHTCH when you unscramble them.
- Hatch (n.)
A bedstead.
- Hatch (n.)
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
- Hatch (n.)
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
- Hatch (n.)
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- Hatch (n.)
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.
- Hatch (n.)
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- Hatch (n.)
Development; disclosure; discovery.
- Hatch (n.)
The act of hatching.
- Hatch (n.)
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
- Hatch (v. i.)
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
- Hatch (v. t.)
To close with a hatch or hatches.
- Hatch (v. t.)
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.
- Hatch (v. t.)
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
- Hatch (v. t.)
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
- Hatch (v. t.)
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.