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Word entry · 3 letters

hut

Best crossword clue

"Small shelter"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /hʌt/Part of speech nounSorted htuStarts with HEnds with T6 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,

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Used as a crossword answer6 curated clues

01Small shelter3 letters
02Primitive dwelling3 letters
03Small cabin3 letters
04Small simple dwelling3 letters
05Tiny shelter3 letters
06Simple shelter3 letters

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