" hatch "

[Noun]  | "hatch" | \ ˈhach \

1: a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship)

2: an opening in the deck of a ship or in the floor or roof of a building

3: the covering for such an opening

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English hache, from Old English hæc; akin to Middle Dutch hecke trapdoor;

[Noun]  | "hatch" 

1: an act or instance of hatching

2: a brood of hatched young

Origin: 1600 ;

[Noun]  | "hatch" 

1: a mark, line, or stroke (as in a drawing or engraving) made usually by a single movement of a pen, pencil, etc.; especially : one made in parallel with others to give the effect of shading

Origin: circa 1650 ;

[Noun]  | "booby hatch" 

1: a raised framework with a sliding cover over a small hatch on a ship

2: a psychiatric hospital —usually used with the

Origin: 1784 ;

[Noun]  | "escape hatch" 

1: a hatch providing an emergency exit from an enclosed space

2: a means of evading a difficulty, dilemma, or responsibility

Origin: 1925 ;

[Verb]  | "hatch" 

1: to produce young by incubation

2: to emerge from an egg, chrysalis, or pupa

3: to give forth young or imagoes

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English hacchen; akin to Middle High German hecken to mate;

[Verb]  | "hatch" 

1: to inlay with narrow bands of distinguishable material

2: to mark (something, such as a drawing or engraving) with fine closely spaced lines

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle French hacher to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines, from Old French hachier{mat|hash|};

[Idiom]  | "hatch a plot" 

1: to make a secret plan to do something that is usually illegal or harmful

[Idiom]  | "down the hatch" 

1: into the mouth and down the throat

[Idiom]  | "count one's chickens (before they hatch)" 

1: —usually used in negative statements to mean that someone should not depend on something hoped for until he or she knows for certain that it will happen

[Noun]  | "hatch" 

[Noun]  | "escape hatch" 

[Verb]  | "hatch"