Usually means: Openings used for access, ventilation.
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  1. hatches: Merriam-Webster
  2. hatches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hatches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hatches, hatches: Wordnik
  5. hatches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hatches: Dictionary.com
  7. hatches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Hatches: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. hatches: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. hatches: Wiktionary

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  1. hatches: Legal dictionary

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  1. hatches: Encyclopedia

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  1. hatches: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hatch)

noun:  A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
noun:  A trapdoor.
noun:  An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
noun:  A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
noun:  (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
noun:  (slang) A gullet.
noun:  A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
noun:  A floodgate; a sluice gate.
noun:  (Scotland) A bedstead.
noun:  (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
verb:  (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
verb:  (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
verb:  (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
verb:  (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
verb:  (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
noun:  The act of hatching.
noun:  (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
noun:  (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
noun:  (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
noun:  (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
verb:  (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
noun:  A surname.
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