Hatch
To hatch is, for a bird, to incubate an egg by sitting on it to keep it warm until the chick inside breaks out by breaking the shell. So, to hatch is to break out, to be born. Wow huh. I don’t think other animals do that. Well, we sort of do that by keeping the fertilized egg in the womb until it is ready to be born… but not the same. A hatch is a door as in where we enter and leave from a submarine
A hatch is a door in a seagoing vessel. If vertical it is mounted a few inches above the floor (deck) and the door closes onto a rubber gasket. The door is then dogged shut and tight by turning handles that squeeze it into the rubber gasket, so no water could get through. Typically, there are three dogs on each vertical side and one more on the top and again at the bottom. Dogged tight no water gets past the hatch
A hatchback is a style of car where when you go to open the trunk, the rear window comes up with it and you can load tons of stuff into the space that could, if you put the rear seat down, go all the way to the back of the front seat. I suppose it is named hatchback to suggest is opens as if it were an egg or a ships horizontal hatch. OK then
I can hatch an idea, meaning come up with one after a period of gestation. People ask me where I get my ideas about the words I write about. Well, the words get hatched by my ‘sitting’ on an idea in my mind and keeping all those synapses warm. Then, without fail, up pops the concept or phrase. In terms of solving a problem, same process, up pops the answer. Ever gone to bed with a question and wake with the answer?
To hatch is to incubate with far better results than just going with what shows up in the moment. Hmmm, how does this jive with all the rage about being in the present moment? If you have an idea about this, please let me know. It the meantime I’ll just let it percolate. To open a hatch is to let all that is inside out and to let all that is outside have a way to get in. I can see how the verb and the noun, hatch, can be related.
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