1. [n]  small crude shelter used as a dwelling
2. [n]  a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals

HUTCH is a 5 letter word that starts with H.

1. \Hutch\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Hutted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Hutting}.]
   To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in
   winter quarters.
   
         The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. --W.
                                                  Irving.
   
   

2. \Hutch\, n. [OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL.
   hutica.]
   1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which
      things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch;
      a rabbit hutch.
   
   2. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
   
   3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt.
   
   4. (Mining)
      (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the
          mine and hoisted out of the pit.
      (b) A jig for washing ore.
   
   {Bolting hutch}, {Booby hutch}, etc. See under {Bolting},
      etc.
   
   

3. \Hutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hutched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Hutching}.]
   1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] ``She hutched the . .
      . ore.'' --Milton.
   
   2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.