Synonyms of the word hutch


HUTCHCAGE - COOP - HOVEL - HUT - SHACK - SHANTY - SHELTER

hutch

  • n. A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
  • n. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
  • n. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  • n. (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
  • n. (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  • n. (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
  • v. (transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  • v. (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

cage

  • n. an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
  • n. the passenger compartment of a lift.
  • n. (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) the goal.
  • n. (US derogatory slang) automobile.
  • n. (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
  • n. (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
  • n. (obsolete) A place of confinement for malefactors.
  • n. An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
  • n. (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
  • n. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
  • n. (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
  • n. (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
  • n. (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
  • v. To put into a cage.
  • v. To keep in a cage.
  • v. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists…
  • v. (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.

coop

  • n. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds.
  • n. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
  • n. (figuratively, slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
  • n. (obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
  • v. (transitive) To keep in a coop.
  • v. (transitive) To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, politics, historical) To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them…
  • v. (intransitive, law enforcement, slang) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the…
  • n. (regional, England, Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure,…
  • n. (regional, England, Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
  • n. (Scotland) A small heap.
  • n. Alternative form of co-op.

hovel

  • n. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
  • n. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
  • n. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

hut

  • n. a small wooden shed.
  • n. a primitive dwelling.
  • v. (rare, archaic, transitive) To put into a hut.
  • v. (rare, dated, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
  • interj. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

shack

  • n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  • n. Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  • v. To live (in or with); to shack up.
  • n. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
  • n. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • n. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
  • n. (Britain, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • v. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
  • v. (Britain, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

shanty

  • n. A roughly-built hut or cabin.
  • n. A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
  • adj. (US, pejorative) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
  • v. To inhabit a shanty.
  • n. A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
  • adj. Jaunty; showy.

shelter

  • n. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
  • n. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
  • v. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
  • v. (intransitive) To take cover.

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