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HUT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Synonyms:

hovel; hut; hutch; shack; shanty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hut" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hut"):

igloo; iglu (an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome)

mudhif (a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Temporary military shelter

Synonyms:

army hut; field hut; hut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hut" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hut"):

Nissen hut; Quonset hut (a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Then a match was struck, and next instant the steady light from a candle filled the interior of the hut.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Toward the end, I heard her moving about within the hut, making her toilet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Alleyne started off along the path indicated, and soon found the log-hut where the burner dwelt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am the fiddler who has lived with you in the hut.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Round this clearing there was a semi-circle of trees with curious huts built of foliage piled one above the other among the branches.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the Yahoos draw home the sheaves in carriages, and the servants tread them in certain covered huts to get out the grain, which is kept in stores.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Late in the evening, he went down to his own hut.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Winters used walrus skins on his hut,” I said.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here and there by the wayside stood little knots of wattle-and-daub huts with shock-haired laborers lounging by the doors and red-cheeked children sprawling in the roadway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)