hut
Plural: huts
Noun
- temporary military shelter
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
- A small wooden shed.
- A small stack of grain.
Verb
Verb Forms: hutted, hutting, huts
- To take shelter or reside in a small, simple dwelling.
- To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
- To take shelter in a hut.
- To stack (sheaves of grain).
Intj
- Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
Examples
- a groundsman’s hut
- a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
- The player hoped to hut their poor tile rack in a corner of the board, hoping it wouldn’t be noticed.
- to hut troops in winter quarters
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 6
hut: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhut: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hut: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary