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lean-to
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an.
See 1966 quote.
Quotations
1872
Tents, for the sake of carrying as little weight as possible, were discarded for the simple "lean to."
1910
With Walter Barrie, his guide, he was ranging timber up north. They built a lean-to of boughs (with nothing to lean-to). . . .
1966
Lean-tos were overnight shelters just large enough for one or two men to sleep in, made by laying poles against some support as a fallen tree and covering them with bark or boughs to check the wind.
1bn.
a portable canvas shelter having a sloping roof from ridgepole to ground and being open on three sides.
Quotations
1913
Jack opened the cache for an additional supply of grub, and what else he needed: his cherished leather chaps, his canvas lean-to, and mosquito bar.
1963
. . . it was a real pleasure to see him tending his camp, his bedroll laid on pine boughs beneath a canvas lean-to.
2n.
a temporary shelter, often at a stopping place in the bush.
See: camp(def. 1a)
Quotations
1912
"How are we going to stow all our furniture in that shack, I wonder?" were Helen's first words when she saw the frame "lean-to" which was the only building on the place.
1931
Log houses and bark "lean-tos," or camps, sheltered most of the civilians . . . but the soldiers spent the first winter under canvas.
1964
[Caption] The lean-to beyond was the logging camp of the "Mosher" who logged the timber off the slopes behind.