hut

It refers to the mythical Slavic crone, Baba Yaga, who either gives heroes a boon or lures wayward children to a forest hut that moves around on bird legs.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

He entered a camouflaged, net-covered hut, where he turned four keys on switch boxes to trigger Lima’s barrage of electronic noise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

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

But before they could pass through it, the door to the hut swung open, and heavy orange light spilled out.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

He has maintained it as a cultural project, with elegant bamboo huts to receive visitors for dawn trips, organic lunches and tamale-making classes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Included were proposals to create an enclosure for the animals, stables, three shepherd huts, parking for tractors and a pond.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

None of the huts are allowed to have power and all offer basic shelter.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

The vacancies have been filled and the sacks of straw in the huts are already booked.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

The Sixth was hutted in temporary structures built of logs surmounted by tents.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

For a long time we were hutted in the Square.

From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by William Henry Lowe Watson

During the winter which followed the campaign of 1779, Washington, with his army hutted on the heights of Morristown, was beset by pressing and formidable difficulties.

From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder

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 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

Do you remember when Prout and you were on their track for hutting and trespass, wasn't it?

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

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 king, excitedly impatient, now led the way again, shooting hurry-scurry through my men's lines, which were much commented on as being different from Waganda hutting, on to the tall tree with the adjutant's nest.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

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