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[huht] / hʌt /


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These included updating the warming hut and clubhouse and adding a mountain bike park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

In his small stone hut at the entrance to the Cavustepe site, Kusman is undaunted by the doubters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

So, before jumping into today’s news, don’t miss: a lively reader debate on Gen X’s affinity for bars and one couple’s journey renovating a ramshackle hut on the Irish coast into their dream home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

After returning to Ithaca disguised by Athena as an old beggar, Odysseus reveals himself to the son he hasn’t seen since infancy in the hut of the swineherd Eumaeus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He built a hut of driftwood logs and good strong branches, with a palm-thatched roof and a hard dirt floor.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

However, most mountain huts and toilet facilities are closed off season.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

They have also tried to stop poorly equipped climbers from summitting and mandating that visitors spend at least one night at one of the huts on the trails.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Photos show the construction of observation huts to the north, south and west of the blast site, some 10,000 yards—about 5½ miles—away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts?

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

In the winter of 1807, Napoleon established his army in cantonments behind the Passarge in face of the enemy, the advanced guard alone being hutted near the cities of Gutstadt, Osterode, &c.

From The Art of War by George Henry Mendell

The hunters were sent to look for a spring; and, one being found at no great distance, we all repaired to the spot, and hutted for the night.

From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper

The dreary encampment at Valley Forge has become proverbial for its hardships; yet they were scarcely more severe than those suffered by Washington's army during the present winter, while hutted among the heights of Morristown.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

On its return from the Expedition, the regiment proceeded to Easton, Pennsylvania, and from thence to Morristown, N.J., where it was hutted for the winter.

From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

Captain Winslow and the officers and the crew of the “Osterley,” who had been hutted at a distance from the rest, on hearing the firing, had broken through the sentries, and hurried to the spot.

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by T. Hoggans

He frequently accompanied the General, as at Valley Forge, in his visits to the encampment on the mountain, where the emaciated tattered wretches were hutting with all possible speed against the severity of another winter.

From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The troops were landed, and there being no barrack accommodation for them, some succeeded in hutting themselves most comfortably.

From History of Prince Edward Island by Duncan Campbell

Kinds of designs and experiments in hutting could be practised without expense in this simple way.

From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton

We were put on shore on the 8th February, and instantly commenced hutting ourselves by brigades.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

It was now the middle of February; the rains began to fall very heavy, and pointed the necessity of hutting the people; convicts were therefore appointed to assist the detachment in this work.

From A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H. Swinburne


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