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Definition of Hutments
1. hutment [n] - See also: hutment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hutments
Literary usage of Hutments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paine's Complete Works by Thomas Paine (1878)
"yielding and pressing up of the wood, and which corresponds to the giving way of
the hutments, so generally fatal to slone arches, would have upon this. ..."
2. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"Primitive as they were, trailers were better than the hutments, ... hutments had
no windows and one door. They had a bed in each corner and a pot-bellied ..."
3. Capital (1888)
"There are also some hutments standing on this land where 172 families live of
which 70 belong to the employees of the Company and the rest are outsiders. ..."
4. General History of the State of Michigan: With Biographical Sketches by Charles Richard Tuttle (1874)
"On the next section below are four projecting hutments, on which will be seated,
when the monument is finished, four allegorical figures in bronze, ..."
5. Criminal Victimisation in the Developing World edited by Ugljesa Zvekic, Anna Alvazzi Del Frate (1996)
"Cases of burglary were reported more from the Cheeta Camp area and mainly from
people living in hutments. Again, people with low economic status and living ..."
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