Meanings
- pluralplural of hatch, match, and dispatch
In some households it is still given a place of honour on the sideboard or coffee table, not necessarily to be read but to record the family history of hatches, matches and dispatches.
2011, Alan P.F. Sell, The Bible in Church, Academy, and Culture2 more examples
Those who study diligently the 'hatches, matches, and dispatches' column of the 'Times' will see that the 25th of January (the- festival of the Conversion of St Paul) was a great day for weddings this year.'
1868, The London Quarterly Review - Volumes 124-125, page 130He would have some time for reading his Farmer's Weekly and the Scottish Farmer while the daily paper, the Dundee Courier and Advertiser, was a necessary conduit of local and social news; the “hatches, matches, and dispatches” page an indispensable notice of births, marriages, and deaths in the Fife population.
2011, Anne Ewing -, Leaving the Land, page 110
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of hatch, match, and dispatch
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