Definitions
small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Word origin
From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
Used in a sentence
““No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.””
“To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled[…]”
“There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rabbit cage”5 letters
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