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/ˈliːnˌtuː/ · noun
A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension..
Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark
His shirt, an ordinary Crimean flannel, was exquisitely clean, and outside the "lean-to" another was drying on a bush.
Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
From a lean-to of bark an old lubra hurriedly emerged.
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Lean-to means A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension..
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Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark
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