lean-to - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• leanto

First attested 1461.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːnˌtuː/

lean-to (plural lean-tos)

1. A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161:

     His shirt, an ordinary Crimean flannel, was exquisitely clean, and outside the "lean-to" another was drying on a bush.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

• etalon, late on, tolane