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hut / hət/ • n. a small single-story building of simple or crude construction, serving as a poor, rough, or temporary house or shelter.• v. (hut·ted, hut·ting) [tr.] provide with huts: [as adj.] (hutted) a hutted encampment. DERIVATIVES: hut·like / -ˌlīk/ adj.ORIGIN: mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘temporary wooden shelter for troops’): from French hutte, from Middle High German hütte.

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hut. See hermitage and Primitive Hut.

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture JAMES STEVENS CURL

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hut wooden structure for housing troops XVII; mean dwelling of rude construction XVII. — F. hutte (MH)G. hütte, OHG. hutt(e)a, perh. f. base of HIDE2.

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