## Meanings
1. To come out of an egg.
2. A small door or opening in a floor, ceiling, ship, or aircraft.
3. To secretly create a plan.
4. A small opening in a wall used for passing food or items through.

## Examples
- The chicks hatched early one spring morning.
- The crew climbed down through a hatch into the lower deck.
- They hatched a plan to surprise her on her birthday.
- The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.

## Derived Forms
- after-hatch
- booby-hatch
- hatchability
- hatchable
- hatchback
- hatchboat
- hatcher
- hatchery
- hatchless
- hatchlike
- hatchling
- hatchman

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hacher
- Root: *hakōn
- Root: *hakkōną

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Hatch comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “To come out of an egg” and “A small door or opening in a floor, ceiling, ship, or aircraft”.

## Topics
- House & Home

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