hut

noun

1. 1

   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.

   1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109, […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.

   […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,

2. 2

   A small wooden shed.

   a groundsman’s hut

3. 3

   obsoleteA small stack of grain.

verb

1. 1

   archaicTo 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.

   His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.

2. 2

   archaicTo 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.

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

3. 3

   obsoleteTo 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,

interjection

1. 1

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

Forms

plural

huts

past tense

hutted

past participle

hutted

present participle

hutting

third person singular

huts