hatching

hatching has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Hatch
• n.. A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.
• n.. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
• n.. the production of young from an egg