hatch vs muck

hatch

noun
  • A bedstead. 

  • A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time. 

  • A trapdoor. 

  • An opening into, or in search of, a mine. 

  • The act of hatching. 

  • A gullet. 

  • A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper). 

  • A floodgate; a sluice gate. 

  • An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine 

  • A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. 

  • Development; disclosure; discovery. 

  • A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance. 

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

  • An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. 

  • The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity. 

verb
  • To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch). 

  • To devise. 

  • To emerge from an egg. 

  • To break open when a young animal emerges from it. 

  • To close with a hatch or hatches. 

  • To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch. 

muck

noun
  • Semen. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

verb
  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

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