🐇 A small animal cage 🗄️ A storage cabinet 🏚️ A simple shelter 🐇 To cage an animal

to hutch

7.9

To put small animals into a cage to keep them safe

verb
/hʌtʃ/

: encerrar en una conejera

The farmer decided to hutch the rabbits to keep them safe from predators.

Examples

To prepare for the winter, he hutched the guinea pigs in their cozy cage.
After the storm, she hutched the chickens inside their enclosure for protection.
I pictured the petting zoo at the amusement park, the goats and pigs and harmless hutched rabbits.

Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

to coop

vsto hutch

Informal

46 6.1

To keep someone or something in a small space so they cannot move freely

is about moving the animal into a smaller, domestic housing box

to cage

vsto hutch

40 1.0

To put a person or animal into a space with bars that keeps them from escaping

puts the animal into a smaller, boxlike enclosed living space

to fold

vsto hutch

8 8.2

Bring animals into a pen to keep them safe

is narrower, focusing on small domestic housing rather than large livestock enclosures

to pound

vsto hutch

7 8.2

To put animals into a place where they are held until claimed

describes confining in a small private housing space instead of a public facility

to crate

vsto hutch

5 4.1

To put something into a strong box for moving or keeping safe

means placing the animal into a small living housing rather than a transport box

to stall

vsto hutch

5 4.8

To put an animal into a small separate space in a stable

refers to a much smaller living box used for small domestic animals

to cage in

vsto hutch

2 5.4

To put someone or something into a small space with bars to stop them moving freely

uses a much smaller, cosy enclosed living space rather than broad barriers

to pen up

vsto hutch

2 6.0

Keep animals or people in a small area

implies using a tiny purpose-built living box rather than a general enclosure

to kennel

vsto hutch

1 5.6

To put a dog in a place that looks after it while you are away

is more about placing the animal into a small permanent domestic enclosure

to coop up

vsto hutch

Informal

1 6.4

To keep a person or animal inside a small space like a cage

suggests placing the creature into a smaller housing unit made for animals

to encage

vsto hutch

7.1

To put an animal or person in a cage

refers specifically to placing an animal into a small domestic living enclosure

Antonyms

release

279 1.8

An act of letting someone or something go free from being held

Compounds

rabbit hutch

1 2.2

A small cage with a wire front for keeping rabbits outside

How Confined

to cage

40 1.0

to hutch

7.9

to confine

215 4.2

Surface Forms

hutch infinitive

hutched past

hutched past participle

hutching present participle

hutches third person singular

Etymology

The verb hutch comes from the noun hutch (from old French huche 'box'), so to 'hutch' an animal is simply to put it into its box or small enclosed cage.