A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
A small wooden shed.
a groundsman’s hut
To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
to hut troops in winter quarters
To take shelter in a hut.
1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219, Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hut...
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To stack (sheaves of grain).
The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,