A temporary cottage or hut; a ‘shieling’. ? Scottish or dialect.

A separate heated hut used by North American Indians as a winter residence or for taking sweat baths. Now historical. Cf. sweat-house, n. 1.

In the Caribbean: a wooden-framed hut or shelter with a thatched roof and (sometimes) open sides.

A subsidiary structure or annexe attached to a wall of a main building, such as a shelter, a porch, a… A shed with a sloping roof, as a separate…

In South Asia (originally in southern areas): a shed, booth, shelter, or triumphal arch, esp. for temporary use (at a festival, etc.); a marquee…

a hut built with the bark of trees.

A cabin, or small house, built of logs.

A semi-subterranean dwelling or hut, usually formed of timber covered with earth or turf, of the indigenous peoples of northern and central Asia…

A Russian hut or log-house.

A small hut on or next to a beach; (in later use) esp. one used for privacy or shelter while visiting the beach during the day.

A Maori hut or native dwelling.

(a) U.S. a temporary structure made of boughs; (b) dialect see quot. 1852.

A makeshift shack or shanty made of wood, corrugated iron, or other improvised building materials.

a hut, esp. a circular one with a domed roof, the roof and sides of which are made of bundles or mats of dried grass.

‘a frail structure of “wattle and daub”, so called, apparently, because a similar primitive structure was often erected by the earlier hunters’…

a hut or small house built largely or completely of leaves.

A native Australian hut. (Cf. humpy, n.1 and gibber, n.3)

A house of which the roof and sides are made of bundles or mats of dried grass; = grass hut n. at grass, n.1 compounds 5.

In sense ‘constructed of slabs’, as slab-cottage, slab-fence, slab whare, etc.; (sense 2b) slab-and-bark house,slab-and-bark hut; slab-and-shingle hut…

In sense ‘constructed of slabs’, as slab-cottage, slab-fence, slab whare, etc.; (sense 2b) slab-and-bark house,slab-and-bark hut; slab-and-shingle hut…

In sense ‘constructed of slabs’, as slab-cottage, slab-fence, slab whare, etc.; (sense 2b) slab-and-bark house,slab-and-bark hut; slab-and-shingle hut…

A traditional circular African dwelling, usually with a thatched, conical roof. Also (in extended use): a circular building (typically with one…

a house or hut in the bush; in Australia, also one in a (suburban) garden.

A temporary dwelling used by nomads; also in extended use.

A hut constructed of erect poles or stakes filled in with wattle and mud, a type common in Mexico and the south-western U.S.; an adobe house; also…

A tent, hut, or simple dwelling of the native Indians of South America.

An Australian Aboriginal hut. Also attributive.

In South America: a large hut in certain Indian villages; the village itself.

a hut made from palm leaves.

Hence gen., a hut or shed; spec. on a sheep station, a building where the hands sleep or eat. Also with defining word.

An encampment consisting of or featuring huts; accommodation in huts. Also: a hut used as accommodation.

In Guyana: a triangular or rectangular structure made from a framework of palm branches or poles and covered with palm leaves.

= pondok, n.

In Scotland and Ireland: a small hut or cottage, esp. in a remote area; (in later use) spec. (Scottish, esp. on the Island of Lewis) one used as…

In Hawaii (and by imitation elsewhere), a porch or veranda; a roofed structure with open sides near a house. Also attributive.

A North American Indian (esp. Navajo) building usually made of logs and earth, and traditionally built with the door facing east.

transferred. Applied to a hut.

a shelter made of leaves.

A light temporary hut. Obsolete. rare.

= gunyah, n.

A cabin; esp. a hut or shelter at a beach or swimming-pool.

a hut thatched with troolies.

In Ethiopia and some adjacent regions: a dwelling shaped like a beehive, and constructed with a thatched roof.

A house of the type built by the Samoans (see quot. 1959); also transferred (see quot. 1966).

A hut or shed with a thatched roof, used typically as a rest house or shelter for travellers.

In southern Africa: a traditional African hut; (also) an African servant's quarters.

British. A small, typically wooden, one-room cabin on or next to a beach, used for privacy or shelter while visiting the beach during the day; = beac…

In the Igbo area of Nigeria: a hut or house, esp. one for formal or ceremonial use.

a tunnel-shaped hut made of corrugated iron with a cement floor.

= Nissen hut n. at sense 1.

A hut made of bamboo with a thatched roof.

(a) the tourist-class accommodation on a ship; (b) a cabin for tourists.

Originally and chiefly Canadian. A small outbuilding providing extra sleeping accommodation for guests during the summer. Cf. bunkhouse n. at bunk…

Canadian and U.S. regional (chiefly Alaska). A cabin mounted on runners which can be dragged over snow or ice. Cf. caboose, n. 3b.

Quonset hut. A prefabricated building consisting of a semi-cylindrical corrugated metal roof on a bolted steel foundation.

In the south-eastern United States, especially Florida: a type of open-sided dwelling consisting of palmetto thatching on a log frame with a…

Military slang. A tunnel-shaped hut made of corrugated iron with a cement floor; a Nissen or Quonset hut. Now historical.

= sense 1.