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noun

Lean-to n.

(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."

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.

adjective

Lean-to adj. (Arch.) Having only one slope or pitch; said of a roof.

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Etymology of 'Lean-to'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lean-to" Quotes from Famous Books

... kitchen table kneading dough. The room was called the kitchen, which it was not, except in winter. The stove was moved out in spring to a lean-to, easily reached through the open door ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... and thistles strive to conceal, but are not permitted, there is an old cottage by the roadside. The roof is of old tile, once red, now dull from weather; the walls some tone of yellow; the folk are poor. Against it there grows a vigorous plant of jessamine, a still finer rose, a vine covers the lean-to at one end, and tea-plant the corner of the wall; beside these, there is a yellow-flowering plant, the name of which I forget at the moment, also trained to the walls; and ivy. Altogether, six plants grow up the walls of the cottage; and over the wicket-gate there is a rude arch—a framework of ...

— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies

... cried Phil, as his cousin flung open the door to the tiny lean-to bedroom. Tod's face was pasty white and his ...

— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart

... A lean-to roof was built against the northern side of the hut, and the ends and open side were boarded up. This building when buttressed by the bricks of coal which formed our fuel, and drifted up with snow by the blizzards, formed an extremely sheltered and even warm stable. The ponies ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... could not help observing what a nondescript lot of chickens they were —not a purebred among them; besides, he noticed many were old, and some had frozen feet and combs. No wonder, he thought, as he glanced at the poorly built hen house that faced the east instead of south—a lean-to built against the side of the barn, with only one small window, and that one on the north end, while the cracks between the upright boards, of which the coop was constructed, were not even ...

— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson

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