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hutment
has definitions from the fields of military,housing
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[ noun ] (military,housing) an encampment of huts (chiefly military)
Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Beyond that misty gray of the rain , he saw the stretching hutment , low diminutive log_cabins , chinked with mud , with doorways a man would have_to crouch to get through , with roofs of tenting laid_over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes , or fence_rails , with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud . Adam thought_of the hutments , regiment after regiment , row after row , the thousands of huts , stretching away into the night . |
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