hatch

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To come out of an egg.

   The chicks hatched early one spring morning.

2. 2
   noun

   A small door or opening in a floor, ceiling, ship, or aircraft.

   The crew climbed down through a hatch into the lower deck.

3. 3
   verb

   To secretly create a plan.

   They hatched a plan to surprise her on her birthday.

4. 4
   noun

   A small opening in a wall used for passing food or items through.

   The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

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