Hatch and Ready

Hatch

Hatch verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.

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Ready and hatch are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead a verb "Hatch".

Nearby Words: hatched, hatchet, hatching, hatchback, hatchway

Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.

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Hatch and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hatch" instead a verb "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

sex	hatch sex	ready sex
plan	hatch plan	ready plan

This is explained as dragons actually being ready to hatch early on, but the hatchlings stay in the egg for safety.

Source: Smashed Eggs Hatching
In The Serpent's Egg trilogy, Typhoon gives a busted up crown to Penelope as a reward for watching a very much alive and ready to hatch dragon egg, which she was told was a rock.

Source: Grail in the Garbage
Would Hurt a Child: Sir Orrin's first encounter with Bryagh was when he found him eating an entire nest of ready-to-hatch dragon eggs.

Source: Western Animation / The Flight of Dragons

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