"baby hatch" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: baby hatches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} baby hatch (plural baby hatches)
  1. A place where a person (typically the mother) can bring a baby to abandon it so that somebody else can find and care for it.
    (chiefly historical) A physical structure designated for this purpose, such as a foundling wheel.
    Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-baby_hatch-en-noun-eSCmIy-r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40
  2. A place where a person (typically the mother) can bring a baby to abandon it so that somebody else can find and care for it.
    (by extension) A modern healthcare facility for this purpose, incorporating an incubator.
    Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-baby_hatch-en-noun-aKiSZN-g
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: baby box Hyponyms: foundling wheel Translations (hatch for abandoned children): babyluge [common-gender] (Danish), tour d’abandon [masculine] (French), Babyklappe [feminine] (German), okno życia [neuter] (Polish)
Disambiguation of 'hatch for abandoned children': 53 47

Inflected forms

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