These are the meanings of the letters WHATCHA when you unscramble them.
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Hatch (v. t.)
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
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Hatch (v. t.)
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
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Hatch (v. t.)
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
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Hatch (v. t.)
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
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Hatch (v. i.)
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
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Hatch (n.)
The act of hatching.
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Hatch (n.)
Development; disclosure; discovery.
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Hatch (n.)
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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Hatch (n.)
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
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Hatch (n.)
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
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Hatch (n.)
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
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Hatch (n.)
A bedstead.
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Hatch (n.)
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
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Hatch (n.)
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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Hatch (v. t.)
To close with a hatch or hatches.
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Watch (v. i.)
The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
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Watch (v. i.)
One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
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Watch (v. i.)
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
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Watch (v. i.)
The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
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Watch (v. i.)
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
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Watch (n.)
An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
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Watch (n.)
That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.
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Watch (v. i.)
To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
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Watch (v. i.)
To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
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Watch (v. i.)
To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
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Watch (v. i.)
To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
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Watch (v. i.)
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
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Watch (v. t.)
To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.
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Watch (v. t.)
To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.