hut

Converse of object

• thatch: They entered a village of thatched huts built in a circle around a small clearing.
• corrugate: This small band turned an ugly corrugated iron hut into a thing of consummate beauty.
• erect: Gore Farm Hospital site layout, 1893. © Peter Higginbotham The Lower Hospital The plan above shows the eight temporary huts erected in 1887.

Preposition: on

stilt: Each night we slept with the villagers, in wooden huts on stilts, sharing mats on the floor.

Adjective modifier

• CIC: After a quick cuppa at the CIC hut we scrambled up to the bottom of the first pitch.
• wooden: Note the small wooden hut attached to the cabin on the right hand side.
• makeshift: As of early 2003, 135,000 internally displaced persons live in tented camps, makeshift huts, uncompleted buildings and railroad wagons.
• ramshackle: So when Bruce builds a ramshackle hut near her, she is not best pleased.
• alpine: Well spend the majority of our time trekking between alpine huts, enjoying some of the Balkans best mountain scenery.

Modifies a noun

• custodian: This is normally a matter for hut custodians to deal with.
• circle: Hut Circle A hut circle is the archeological remains of a form of building used in prehistory.

Noun used with modifier

• scout: Twenty-five years ago, the Hounslow temple was nothing more than a couple of scout huts on a piece of waste ground.
• mud: Its coast is lined by small hamlets of mud huts with indigenous women in bowler hats farming their land.
• nissen: The choice of a simple building form, which has echoes of the standard nissen hut, makes an appropriate and admirable space.
• beehive: The cluster of beehive huts is reached up slate steps 700 feet above sea level.
• bamboo: Sitting outside bamboo huts on the side of the track were human beings begging even from us, or at least trying to.
• lineside: The lineside hut has been repaired after an act of vandalism.

Possessives

• watchman: One behind a watchman's hut at the end of Lawrence Street, a man who lodged in Lawrence Street, was killed.
• shepherd: A shepherd's hut made £ 6. There were 27 horses.
• fisherman: My place to buy fish is Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast, where there are ad hoc fisherman's huts along the front.