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hut

noun
/hʌt/

Etymology

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”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.

  1. derived from *(s)kewt-✻ — “to deck; cover; covering; skin”
  2. derived from *hudjǭ✻
  3. derived from hutta — “hut, cottage”
  4. derived from hute — “hut”
  5. derived from hutte
  6. derived from hute
  7. inherited from hōd
  8. inherited from *hutte✻

Definitions

  1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally…

    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
    • And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.

  2. A small wooden shed.

    • a groundsman’s hut

  3. A small stack of grain.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.

      • to hut troops in winter quarters
      • […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,
      • […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.

    2. To take shelter in a hut.

      • He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.

    3. 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,

    4. Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

    5. Acronym of home/household using television.

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Derived

bathing hut, beach hut, booby hut, hut circle, hutkeeper, hutless, hutlet, hutlike, hutmaster, hutment, hut tax, hutting, Iris hut, nipa hut, Nissen hut, observation hut, outhut, palaver hut, Quonset hut, Romney hut, slab hut

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA