n.
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
n.
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
v. t.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
n.
A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.
n.
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hatchel
n.
To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp, so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous parts.
n.
To tease; to worry; to torment.
n.
One who uses a hatchel.
n.
One who hatches, or that which hatches; a hatching apparatus; an incubator.
n.
One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
n.
A house for hatching fish, etc.
n.
A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
n.
Specifically, a tomahawk.
n.
Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.
n.
A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.
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