• IPA: /hʌtʃ/

hutch (plural hutches)

1. A cage for keeping rabbits, guinea pigs, etc.
2. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
3. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
4. (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
5. (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
6. (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
7. A baker's kneading-trough.

• French: clapier
• Italian: gabbia, conigliera
• Russian: кле́тка
• Spanish: conejera

hutch (hutches, present participle hutching; past and past participle hutched)

1. (transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance)​, [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864 ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837 ↗:

     She hutched the all-worshipt ore.

2. (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
   • 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin

     And the mind was very disinclined to hutch out of the crevice and face what must be done. […] He hauled himself out of the crevice and the air was warm so that he undressed to trousers and sweater. […] He hutched himself back against a rock with his legs sprawled apart.

1. A male given name
2. Surname