Hut

Quick meaning: Hut is a noun meaning A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A small wooden shed.
2. (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.
3. (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
4. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
5. (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
6. (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.

Example Sentences

a groundsman’s hut

to hut troops in winter quarters

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

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

Word Forms

• huts
• hutting
• hutted

Synonyms for hut

Depending on context, synonyms include hovel, shack, shanty, hutch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shack, shanty, hutch, hovel, cabin, bunkhouse.

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