leanto
English
Noun
leanto (plural leantos)
- Alternative form of lean-to
- 1842 April, “Farm Buildings.”, in American Agriculturist, volume 1, number 1, New York, OCLC 173857262, page 119, column 2:
- The utmost possible economy of room is made for packing the hay and grain, and the stables are mere leantos, made of light frame, attached to the sides and ends of the main building.
- 1973, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Melanesian Journal, LCCN 74600982, OCLC 1201601103, page 110:
- Across the river, and a short way from the village is a small leanto hut, which is pointed out to me by the Weme people as a hut in which a sick and dying man of their group moved, rather than stay in the village...