Definition of Hutment

1. Noun. An encampment of huts (chiefly military).


Definition of Hutment

1. Noun. (military) An encampment of huts ¹

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Definition of Hutment

1. a group of huts [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hutment

huswives
hut
hutch
hutch bladder diverticulum
hutched
hutches
hutching
hutchinson's melanotic freckle
hutchinson syndrome
hutchinsonite
hutchlike
hutchunsonian
hutia
hutias
hutlike
hutment (current term)
hutments
hutong
hutongs
huts
hutted
hutter
hutters
hutting
huttings
huttonite
hutzpa
hutzpah
hutzpahs
hutzpas

Literary usage of Hutment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a Complete ...Great Britain (1900)
"... und a poor's »hutment of 27 ae., i bou t £41 yearly, which is distributed in coals. Runnington, pa. and small vil. on the Tone. ..."

2. Capital (1888)
"Some time later one Sheo Ram, another hutment dweller, started making an unauthorised construction on the plot. Shyam Singh, an assistant security officer ..."

3. The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet: Containing a Series of Elegant ...by John Greig by John Greig (1817)
"On iu north-west corner is a large hutment, containing a staircase leading ... this hutment is terminated hy a cluster of semi-columns covered hy a sloping ..."

4. A Treatise on Bridge Architecture: In which the Superior Advantages of the by Thomas Pope (1811)
"The length of hutment's not, as men have told, So long to eut a eity in two-fold: ... This hutment must more gravity possess Than flying arm by weight ean ..."

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