The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hutch \Hutch\, n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica.]
A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
A measure of two Winchester bushels.
(Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
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(Mining)
A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
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A jig for washing ore.
Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
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(Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.]
Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour.
--McElrath.Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.