lean-to
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- noun
- /ˈlinˌtu/
:
cobertizo
- I'll use the lean-to.
Examples
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Andy was home, his car parked in the lean-to west of the house.
Fiction book (1993) -
Into a flour sack, she gathered what food she could find in the lean-to's safe and closed the back door.
Fiction book (1991) -
I would have the house to myself, and from my lean-to, I could watch the snow fall and fall through my window.
Fiction book (1997) -
We'll have to put you in the lean-to.
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Taking her pack, she entered the stone lean-to where she had hidden to write once before.
Fiction book (1994) -
We drove past increasing numbers of lean-tos, every third one lit with the blue glow of a television.
Fiction book (1992) -
Woodsmen, white or black, all country people were free to enter a lean-to, a hunter's shooting cabin.
Fiction book (1992) -
There's a lean-to out there behind the woodpile that should keep them from blowing away or maybe freezing.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Nhambiquara home, as portrayed in the photograph, was only a lean-to; the mission station house, while rustic, had walls and windows.
Academic text (2003) -
We set up a lean-to next to the cabin for extra storage during the winter.
Synonyms
A small shelter with one sloping roof that leans against a building
How Simple
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lean-to comes from the common verb lean ('to rest against') plus to, so the name shows that the roof or wall 'leans' toward something. A lean-to is therefore a simple shelter with a single sloping roof that rests against another building or is propped up, and the word tells you exactly how it is made.