lean-to

Definitions

A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.

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Examples

“Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close⟳ by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put⟳ his eye to the crack, but couldn't make⟳ out nothing, it was so dark”

“His shirt, an ordinary Crimean flannel, was exquisitely clean⟳, and outside the "lean-to" another was drying on a bush.”

“Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end⟳ of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like⟳ a rainstorm. Then he put⟳ the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.”

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