hatching

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hatch=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

hatching, n. [See 1st Hatch.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hatching, n. Art & Archit. close parallel lines forming shading esp. on a map or an architectural drawing.

THESAURUS

hatching

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