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.