The Hatch

All Our Work is gone. 

Ultron cleared out. 

He used The Internet 

as an escape hatch.

Your Rage has Unbalanced You!

You, sir, would Fight to The Death against a Knight who is not Your Enemy, over a stretch of road you could easily ride around..!!

We want a window

hatch (v.1)

early 13c., hachen, "to produce young from eggs by incubation," probably from an unrecorded Old English *hæccan, of unknown origin, related to Middle High German, German hecken "to mate" (used of birds). Meaning "to come forth from an egg," also "cause to come forth from an egg" are late 14c. Figurative use (of plots, etc.) is from early 14c. Related: Hatched; hatching.

hatch (n.1)

"opening, grated gate, half-door," Old English hæc (genitive hæcce) "fence, grating, gate," from Proto-Germanic *hak- (source also of Middle High German heck, Dutch hek "fence, gate"), a word of uncertain origin. This apparently is the source of many of the Hatcher surnames; "one who lives near a gate." Sense of "opening in a ship's deck" is first recorded mid-13c. Drinking phrase down the hatch attested by 1931 (the image is nautical).

hatch (v.2)

"engrave, draw fine parallel lines," late 14c., from Old French hachier "chop up, hack" (14c.), from hache "ax" (see hatchet). Related: Hatched; hatching. The noun meaning "an engraved line or stroke" is from 1650s

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hatch (n.2)

"that which has hatched; action of hatching," 1620s, from hatch (v.1).

hatch (n.3)

"engraved lines or strokes," 1650s, from hatch (v.2).

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hatchet (n.)

c. 1300 (mid-12c. in surnames), "small axe with a short handle," designed to be used by one hand, from Old French hachete "small combat-axe, hatchet," diminutive of hache "axe, battle-axe, pickaxe," possibly from Frankish *happja or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hapjo- (source also of Old High German happa "sickle, scythe").

This is perhaps from PIE root *kop- "to beat, strike" (source also of Greek kopis "knife," koptein "to strike, smite," komma "piece cut off;" Lithuanian kaplys "hatchet," kapti, kapiu "to hew, fell;" Old Church Slavonic skopiti "castrate," Russian kopat' "to hack, hew, dig;" Albanian kep "to hew").

Hatchet-face in reference to one with sharp and prominent features is from 1650s. In Middle English, hatch itself was used in a sense "battle-axe." In 14c., hang up (one's) hatchet meant "stop what one is doing." Phrase bury the hatchet "lay aside instruments of war, forget injuries and make peace" (1754) is from a Native American peacemaking custom described from 1680. Hatchet-man was originally California slang for "hired Chinese assassin" (1880), later extended figuratively to journalists who attacked the reputation of a public figure (1944).

hatchback 

type of rear door of an automobile, 1970, from hatch (n.) + back (n.).

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Definitions of hatch from WordNet

1

hatch (v.)

emerge from the eggs;

young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch

hatch (v.)

devise or invent;

Synonyms: think up / think of / dream up / concoct

hatch (v.)

inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating;

hatch (v.)

draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper;

hatch the sheet

hatch (v.)

sit on (eggs);

Synonyms: brood / cover / incubate

2

hatch (n.)

the production of young from an egg;

Synonyms: hatching

hatch (n.)

shading consisting of multiple crossing lines;

Synonyms: hatching / crosshatch / hachure

hatch (n.)

a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open;

Synonyms: hatchback / hatchback door / liftgate

hatch (n.)

a movable barrier covering a hatchway;

Etymologies are not definitions. From wordnet.princeton.edu, not affiliated with etymonline.

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