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Booby hutch

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {Booby hatch} (Naut.), a kind of wooden hood over a hatch,
      readily removable.

   {Booby hut}, a carriage body put upon sleigh runners. [Local,
      U. S.] --Bartlett.

   {Booby hutch}, a clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the
      eastern part of England. --Forby.

   {Booby trap}, a schoolboy's practical joke, as a shower bath
      when a door is opened.

Hutch \Hutch\, n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL.
   hutica.]
   1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which
      things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch;
      a rabbit hutch.

   2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.

   3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt.

   4. (Mining)
      (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the
          mine and hoisted out of the pit.
      (b) A jig for washing ore.

   {Bolting hutch}, {Booby hutch}, etc. See under {Bolting},
      etc.
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