lean-to
lean-to[ noun ]
rough shelter whose roof has only one slope
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Lean-to \Lean"-to`\, a. (Arch.)
Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.
Lean-to \Lean"-to`\, n.
1. (Arch.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall
of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; --
called also {penthouse}, and {to-fall}.
The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all
round this inner apartment. --De Foe.
2. A crude, usually temporary shelter comprising a lean-to
roof braced against any convenient support, as a wall, a
tree or a pole. The roof may extend all the way to the
ground.
[PJC]
- The body was found by Zappalorti's brother Tuesday on a beach near a small lean-to which the mentally disabled man frequented.
- Any stockholder, officer or depositor in some lean-to Texas S&L could be expected to know that the greater the return, the greater the risk.