hatcher

hatch +‎ -er

hatcher (plural hatchers)

1. One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.

   I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.

2. One who hatches, such as a bird in the egg.

   Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.

   • 1989, Bart Thomas De Stasio, Dormancy and egg banks of freshwater zooplankton: structure and dynamics:

     Under these conditions the late-hatching strategy quickly went extinct, usually within 10 years. With no difference in survivorship between hatching early and late, the early hatchers that survive each produce 20 offspring […]

• (intransitive): hatchling

• (transitive): poulterer

• hatchery

• archeth, thearch