How to pronounce hatch
American English pronunciation
HACH
- IPA
- /ˈhætʃ/
- Syllables
- HACH (1 syllable)
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What hatch means
Most people know hatch in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A small door in the floor or deck of a ship
In a sentence: The sailor climbed the ladder and pushed open the hatch to get up on deck.
Where it comes from: It comes from an Old English word, hæc, that is related to old words for a gate. It is a different word from hatch, meaning to come out of an egg.
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