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hut

[ huht ]

noun

  1. a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials, as of logs or grass.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. a simple roofed shelter, often with one or two sides left open.
  3. Military. a wooden or metal structure for the temporary housing of troops.


verb (used with object)

hutted, hutting.
  1. to furnish with a hut as temporary housing; billet.

verb (used without object)

hutted, hutting.
  1. to lodge or take a shelter in a hut.

hut

/ ʌ /

noun

  1. a small house or shelter, usually made of wood or metal
  2. the hut
    (on a sheep or cattle station) accommodation for the shearers, stockmen, etc
  3. a shelter for mountaineers, skiers, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to furnish with or live in a hut
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳˌ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܳl adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hut1

1645–55; < French hutte < Frankish, cognate with Old Saxon hutta, Old High German hutt ( e ) a < West Germanic *ܻ; akin to hide 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hut1

C17: from French hutte, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German hutta a crude dwelling
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Today, the radar dishes are gone, the bombers no longer thunder overhead, and the tin hut stands abandoned.

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Gibbs said he was at Camp Fuji in Japan 1979 when a fuel leak caught fire and wind-driven flames roared through the camp, burning more than a dozen huts where Marines slept, killing 13.

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She was staying in a beach hut with an Australian friend and they went to a nearby village to celebrate Holi, a Hindu festival.

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The Liverpool John Moores University student had been staying in a beach hut with an Australian friend.

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The men cast "strangely embarrassed glances at the sprawling bodies, at the battered huts and at us few still alive", he would later write in his Holocaust memoir The Truce.

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