| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h t |
| NOUN: | 1. A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter; a shack. 2. A temporary structure for sheltering troops. | | TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: hut·ted, hut·ting, huts
To shelter or take shelter in a hut. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French hutte, of Germanic origin. See (s)keu- in Appendix I.
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