Meaning

noun the production of young from an egg

noun shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

noun a movable barrier covering a hatchway

originFrom Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0