hut
noun
- dwelling
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /hʌt/ / /hɐt/ / /hʊt/
intj
Etymology: A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
- Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
noun
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.
- A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
“a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut”
“And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.”
- A small wooden shed.
“a groundsman’s hut”
- A small stack of grain.
verb
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.
- To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
“to hut troops in winter quarters”
“[…] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,”
- To take shelter in a hut.
“1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219, Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.”
“He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.”
- To stack (sheaves of grain).
“The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,”