lean-to

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a simple shelter or extension with a roof that slopes in one direction, often built against another structure

   They stored the garden tools in a narrow lean-to beside the cottage.

Formed from lean + to: the roof appears to lean against the wall that supports it. The noun is recorded from the fifteenth century and came to denote both an attached extension and a simple one-slope shelter.

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