Cope vs Hutch - What's the difference?
cope | hutch |
To deal effectively with something difficult.
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To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
* Bishop Burnet
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
*:He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
* Milton
*, II.12:
(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
* Holland
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Philips
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
* Shakespeare
A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
* 1960 , , chapter 16,
A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
A measure of two Winchester bushels.
(mining) The case of a flour bolt.
(mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
A jig for washing ore.
To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
* Milton
(mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
As verbs the difference between cope and hutch
is that cope is while hutch is to hoard or lay up, in a chest.As a noun hutch is
a cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.cope
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(cop)- I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
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Synonyms
* (to deal effectively with) handle, manage, withstandEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
- the starry cope of heaven
- Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,farthest from heavens coape , with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
- (Knight)
- (De Colange)
Verb
(cop)- Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
Etymology 3
Verb
(cop)- (Spenser)
- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
- Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Anagrams
* * ----hutch
English
Noun
(es)- To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled
Verb
- She hutched the ore.