hut

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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

2. 2
   noun

   A small wooden shed.

   a groundsman’s hut

3. 3
   verb

   To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.

   to hut troops in winter quarters

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   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,

6. 6
   noun

   small crude shelter used as a dwelling

7. 7
   noun

   temporary military shelter

8. 8
   noun

   A small stack of grain.

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.