Read full poem →In numbers more and ever more,
From lonely hut and busy town,
The valley through, the mountain down,
Dictionary Entry
A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
In a Sentence
“a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut”
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “hut”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the duke’s company quitted Dorset Gardens, and re-
moved to Drury-Lane. Hart performed no more, hut
retired on a pension ; and Mohun soon afterwards died.
Read full poem →but is still hid in clouds and darkness to France and Italy. A light to. which the brightest
strokes of Milton and Shakespeare are hut as rays of the iiiid-day sun, when compared to that
ineffable inconceivable lustre which surrounds the throne of God. When the zeal of religion
Read full poem →hitherto made use of both the theatres in Dnrset-Garden
and Drury-Lane; hut about this time the former of
these houses was deserted. The company which had
Read full poem →he succeeded to the vacant laurel, the salary of which
was then one hundred marks per annum ; hut on our
author’s application, in 1630, it was augmented to
Read full poem →Just striking three, in Europe striking eight:
And in some province, in some palace, hut,
Some words are spoken, or a fisticuff
Read full poem →RAIN, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
Remembering again that I shall die
Read full poem →But still the caravan-hut by the hollies
Like a kingfisher gleams between:
Read full poem →Then ekes his speed and faces it again,
To seek the shepherd's hut beside the rushy plain.
Read full poem →I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
