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hut (hut)

noun

a little house or cabin of the plainest or crudest kind

Etymology: Fr hutte < MHG hütte < OHG hutta: for IE base see hide

transitive verb, intransitive verb hutted hut′·ted, hutting hut′·ting

to shelter or be sheltered in or as in a hut or huts

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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