Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Buttery \But"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Butteries}. [OE. botery, botry;
   cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F.
   bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter.
   See {Bottle} a hollow vessel, {Butt} a cask.]
   1. An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other
      provisions are kept.

            All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars,
            pantries, and butteries, to the north. --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.

   2. A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and
      refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

            And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. --E.
                                                  Hall.

   3. A cellar in which butts of wine are kept. --Weale.

   {Buttery hatch}, a half door between the buttery or kitchen
      and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were
      passed. --Wright.

Hatch \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a
   door, D. hek gate, Sw. h["a]ck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger,
   rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made
   of pieces fastened together. Cf. {Heck}, {Hack} a frame.]
   1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set
      with spikes on the upper edge.

            In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak.

   2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

   3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate. --Ainsworth.

   4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

   5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse
      which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway;
      also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in
      closing such an opening.

   6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

   {Booby hatch}, {Buttery hatch}, {Companion hatch}, etc. See
      under {Booby}, {Buttery}, etc.

   {To batten down the hatches} (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over
      them, and secure them with battens.

   {To be under hatches}, to be confined below in a vessel; to
      be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.