hut

views updated Jun 08 2018

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.

hut

views updated Jun 11 2018

hut. See hermitage and Primitive Hut.

hut

views updated May 14 2018

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.