n. A small or humble house; a hovel or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling.n. Milit., a rude wooden structure for the temporary housing of troops, as during a winter. Some military huts are large enough to house a hundred men.n. The back end or body of the breech-pin of a musket.To place in a hut or in huts: as, to hut troops in winter quarters.To lodge in a hut or in huts.n. A clod.n. The cottage of an Australian shepherd, sheep-shearer, or miner.