hatch vb.: (2 chiefly “under” or “beneath the h-es,” which is now associated with the mod. sense of ‘grated framework covering the hatchway’)
1.
half-door, gate or wicket
with an open space above Err. III. i.
33,
John I. i. 171
“In at the window, or
else o'er the ”
(=born irregularly),
V. ii. 138
“take”
(=jump over) “the
hatch,”
Lr. III. vi. 76.
2.
pl. movable planks
forming a kind of deck in ships Tp. I. ii. 230, Wiv. II. i. 95,
2H6 III. ii. 103
“I stood upon the
hatches,”
R3 I. iv. 13, Per. III. i. 72.
