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Definition of Hutment
1. Noun. An encampment of huts (chiefly military).
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Definition of Hutment
1. Noun. (military) An encampment of huts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hutment
1. a group of huts [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hutment
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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