Synonyms of the word

hut

• n. a small wooden shed.
• n. a primitive dwelling.
• v. (rare, archaic, transitive) To put into a hut.
• v. (rare, dated, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
• interj. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

hovel

• n. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
• n. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
• n. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
• v. (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

hutch

• n. A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
• n. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
• n. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
• n. (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
• n. (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
• n. (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
• v. (transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
• v. (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

shack

• n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
• n. Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
• v. To live (in or with); to shack up.
• n. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
• n. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
• n. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
• n. (Britain, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
• v. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
• v. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
• v. (Britain, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

shanty

• n. A roughly-built hut or cabin.
• n. A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
• adj. (US, pejorative) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
• v. To inhabit a shanty.
• n. A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
• adj. Jaunty; showy.

shelter

• n. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
• n. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.
• v. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
• v. (intransitive) To take cover.