Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter; a shack.
  • noun A temporary structure for sheltering troops.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To shelter or take shelter in a hut.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To place in a hut or in huts: as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
  • To lodge in a hut or in huts.
  • noun A small or humble house; a hovel or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling.
  • noun Milit., a rude wooden structure for the temporary housing of troops, as during a winter. Some military huts are large enough to house a hundred men.
  • noun The back end or body of the breech-pin of a musket.
  • noun A clod.
  • noun The cottage of an Australian shepherd, sheep-shearer, or miner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a small wooden shed
  • noun a primitive dwelling
  • verb rare, archaic, transitive to put into a hut
  • verb rare, archaic, intransitive to take shelter in a hut

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  • noun temporary military shelter

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French hutte, of Germanic origin; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French hutte ("cottage"), from Middle High German hütte ( > German Hütte cf. Danish hytte).

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  • A fat overgrown person; also, one who is indolent and inactive; as, a lazy hut. A slattern.

    June 25, 2011