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lean-to

NOUN
  1. rough shelter whose roof has only one slope

How To Use lean-to In A Sentence

  • While surveying the interior architecture of a lean-to connected to the salt-box section of the house, we noticed a small trap door in the ceiling of a closet. Remembering Africa Under the Eaves
  • The lean-tos provide emergency shelter and mountain tops should be marked to prevent people from damaging the mountaintops looking for the summit.
  • Year round, it was always just airish enough to keep the reptile population in her lean-to down to a bare minimum, and with the deck chairs she had sitting around her card table, it was easy not even to take notice of them, so to speak. DEFILEMENT OUTSIDE OF HEAVEN, TWO MILES
  • With some of the spare lumber, Shem and Japheth had set up a little lean-to next to the winepress and were sipping Mesopotamian merlot in the shade. The Arks What Weren't
  • It has 25 tent/trailer sites and 37 lean-tos, and record-catching trout and salmon fishing.
  • Oftentimes lean-tos are rented only for gear storage and/or cooking in inclement weather.
  • There is a large fireplace in the sitting room and a good supply of logs in the lean-to behind the outhouse. CHAMELEON
  • Even a lean-to needs two uprights and a crosspiece. Fire The Sky
  • Every inch of the haymow and the lean-to are now neatly stacked and plugged with small bales of both alfalfa and grass hay.
  • To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse. The Return of the Native
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