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Another word for lean-to

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Noun
      1. A small, one-story house built simply or crudely, as of logs
      2. (Nautical) A room in a ship used as living quarters by an officer or passenger.
      3. The enclosed section of an aircraft, where the passengers sit; also, the section housing the crew or used for cargo
      1. A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
      2. A roughly built, often ramshackle cabin; a shack.
      3. A roughly-built hut or cabin.
      1. The state of being covered or protected:
      2. Something that covers or protects; protection, or place affording protection, as from the elements or danger
      3. Something, especially a structure, that provides cover or protection, as from the weather:
    See also:

    shed

    shack

    hut

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Sentence Examples

  • The next morning, Rebecca walked over to a lean-to to check for their hikers' logbook.

  • The internal arrangement of a lean-to mushroom house is shown in fig.

  • The lean-to is the least desirable form, since it scarcely admits of elegance of design, but it is necessarily adopted in many cases.

  • The lean-to house is in most respects inferior to the span-roofed; one of the latter could be converted into two of the former of opposite aspects by a divisional wall along the centre.

  • Except where space does not permit a span-roofed building to be introduced, a lean-to is not to be recommended; but a house of this class may often be greatly improved by adopting a half-span or hipped roof - that is, one with a short slope behind and a longer in front.

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