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Synonyms for leanto


Grammar : Noun
Spell : leen-too
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlinˌtu

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Définition of leanto

Origin :
  • "building whose rafters pitch against another building or wall," mid-15c., from lean (v.) + to.
  • As in shack : noun shanty
  • As in shanty : noun shack
  • As in camp : noun site for outdoor living
  • As in lean-to : noun shelter
  • As in cottage : noun tiny house; lodging
  • As in house : noun human habitat
  • As in hovel : noun tiny unkempt house
  • As in hut : noun tiny, often roughly built, house
Example sentences :
  • In making the leanto at home the lightest material should be used.
  • Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
  • A leanto for the bivouacker can then be kept down to three pounds.
  • Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
  • He must look out to be near plenty of firewood and leanto material.
  • Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
  • Be careful not to set the leanto on fire with the sparks from your camp fire.
  • Extract from : « Outdoor Sports and Games » by Claude H. Miller
  • The camp was simply a shed or leanto, open on one side, and in front of this shed the fire was built of beech and maple logs.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper » by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
  • The one-room structure was given up to the women while Flores built near it a leanto for himself and Sorez.
  • Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • Two leanto shelters may be at any time joined ridge to ridge and thus used as a wedge tent.
  • Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
  • A leanto of poles, covered with bark or browse, makes a handy shelter for a little emergency camp.
  • Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
  • The tarpaulin used as a flat front tent, as a leanto or as an open shelter tent can be erected in a few minutes.
  • Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
  • A leanto porch, disfigured by a few advertising signs, gave entrance to a narrow door.
  • Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck

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