Hutch
WordNet
noun
(1) Small crude shelter used as a dwelling
(2) A cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
WiktionaryText
Etymology
hucche "storage chest", variation of whucce from hwicce, hwice "box, chest". Spelling influenced by unrelated huche "chest", from hūtica, from a different root, from *hutta from . Akin to hȳdan "to conceal, hide". More at hide
Noun
- A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
- 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 16,
- 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....
- 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 16,
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed