lean-to

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noun shelter

noun. site for outdoor living

noun. tiny house; lodging

noun. tiny unkempt house

noun. tiny, often roughly built, house

"building whose rafters pitch against another building or wall," mid-15c., from lean (v.) + to.

I guess I'll take my bed up there; that lean-to is awful hot.

Arizona galloped her up to the house and rounded the lean-to in which Joe slept.

And while these things were going on Arizona and Joe shared the hospitality of the lean-to.

With this object in view she went down-stairs and visited the lean-to.

Billy kept to his lean-to, when away from the government house.

She always sat beside him on the original settle against the lean-to.

Hanging down from the top of the cliff, they form a sort of lean-to.

With the best haste he could make he hurried back to the lean-to.

It also had a "lean-to," or low ell, attached to the larger part.

How shall we be able to sleep in a lean-to on a night like this.