Definitions of hatching

1. the production of young from an egg

2. A kind of drawing or engraving with narrow parallel or crossed itnes.

3. The mode of so shading.

4. Shading by courses of lines crossing each other at an angle more or less acute.

5. Shading with a blacklead pencil or pen, or in engraving. Note.- etching may only be a corruption of hatching.