hut

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


the cottage of a shepherd or a miner.The word is English but is especially common in Australia, anddoes not there connote squalor or meanness. The «Men's Hut» ona station is the building occupied by the male employees.

1844. `Port Phillip Patriot,' July 11, pt. 1, c. 3:

«At the head station are a three-roomed hut, large kitchen,wool-shed, etc.»

1862. G. T. Lloyd, `Thirty-three Years in Tasmania,' p. 21:

«If a slab or log hut was required to be erected . . . acart-load of wool was pitchforked from the wasting heap,wherewith to caulk the crevices of the rough-hewn timberwalls.»

1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. vi. p. 42:

«`The hut,' a substantial and commodious structure, arose inall its grandeur.»

1890. Id. `Miner's Right,' c. vi. p. 62:

«Entering such a hut, as it is uniformly, but in no sense ofcontempt, termed – – a hut being simply lower in the scale thana cottage – – you will find there nothing to shock the eye ordisplease the taste.»

1891. W. Tilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 29:

«Bark and weatherboard huts alternating with imposing hotelsand stores.»

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

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