hut
Americannoun
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huts
plural
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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a small house or shelter, usually made of wood or metal
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(on a sheep or cattle station) accommodation for the shearers, stockmen, etc
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a shelter for mountaineers, skiers, etc
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Etymology
Origin of hut
1645–55; < French hutte < Frankish, cognate with Old Saxon hutta, Old High German hutt ( e ) a < West Germanic *hudjā; akin to hide 1
Explanation
If you've ever camped under a wooden lean-to, you know what a hut is — it's a simple, usually temporary shelter that doesn't do much more than keep the rain off your head. A hut can be built from many different materials, including wood, stone, snow, or even cardboard. What all huts have in common is a simple design and the intention that it provide a short-term shelter from the weather. Campers, hikers, and skiers often rest or sleep in huts. The word comes from the French hutte, "cottage," which has its root in the Old English word for "to hide," hydan. Hut was originally used in English to describe military dwellings.
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It refers to the mythical Slavic crone, Baba Yaga, who either gives heroes a boon or lures wayward children to a forest hut that moves around on bird legs.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
These included updating the warming hut and clubhouse and adding a mountain bike park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
He entered a camouflaged, net-covered hut, where he turned four keys on switch boxes to trigger Lima’s barrage of electronic noise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Behru Markam lives with his wife and four children in a mud hut.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
I was not in the water; I was in the sleeping hut.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Photos show the construction of observation huts to the north, south and west of the blast site, some 10,000 yards—about 5½ miles—away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Children linger in the narrow shade cast by the huts, some too tired to play, others trailing silently after their mothers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
"We've not seen one for years," he said, noting there were only 17 huts on that stretch compared with about 50 on the left side.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Adams couldn’t believe it when she stepped into one of the handlers’ huts.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Farewell, Romance!" the Lake-folk sighed; "We lift the weight of flatling years; The caverns of the mountain-side Hold him who scorns our hutted piers.
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
The hunters were sent to look for a spring; and, one being found at no great distance, we all repaired to the spot, and hutted for the night.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
One or two families of natives afterwards appeared hutted on the riverbank nearly opposite to our camp, and Piper opened a conversation with them across the river.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
During the winter which followed the campaign of 1779, Washington, with his army hutted on the heights of Morristown, was beset by pressing and formidable difficulties.
From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder
His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
It was now the middle of February; the rains began to fall very heavy, and pointed the necessity of hutting the people; convicts were therefore appointed to assist the detachment in this work.
From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne
Kinds of designs and experiments in hutting could be practised without expense in this simple way.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton
Do you remember when Prout and you were on their track for hutting and trespass, wasn't it?
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
The troops were landed, and there being no barrack accommodation for them, some succeeded in hutting themselves most comfortably.
From History of Prince Edward Island by Duncan Campbell
We were put on shore on the 8th February, and instantly commenced hutting ourselves by brigades.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
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