hutment
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of hutment
Example Sentences
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In the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, flash floods over the weekend brought down a bridge and swept away several hutments.
From Reuters
Now the government seeks their homes, temporary bamboo hutments with tin roofs.
From Washington Post
The team walked to the nearest hutment — with no toilet, no electricity, no cellphone signal — to bunk down for the evening.
From Washington Post
Even married couples were not allowed to live together in the hutment camps.
From The Guardian
On the other side of the river, the steep mud banks changed abruptly into low mud walls of shanty hutments.
From Literature
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