Meaning

A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
2. A small wooden shed.
3. (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.
4. (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
5. (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
6. (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
7. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

Example Sentences

a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut

1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109, […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.

And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.

[…] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,

There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.

a groundsman’s hut

to hut troops in winter quarters

[…] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,

Word Forms

• huts
• hutting
• hutted

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When Should You Use Hut?

Use hut when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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