Hutch

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. 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.

2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.

3. The case of a flour bolt.

4. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

5. A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

2. To wash (ore) in a box or jig.