An encampment of huts (chiefly military)

Usage examples of hutment.

The mosaicists neatly inhabited one of a double set of temporary hutments, the other of which was the chaotic province of the fresco painters.

There was a laneway, then a cleared field of sorts, scrap-built hutments for odds and ends, blocks of stone and rubble.

Even with helmets and sticks, the MPs usually stayed clear of the hutments on Saturday night.

The Maginot-effect of the guard posts faded and the normal hutments and sentry posts appeared as before.

The crews were pouring out of hutments, racing through the rain of metal to their tanks and carriers, and falling, their bodies jerking in the grotesque dance of human flesh caught in automatic-weapons fire.

The flames had died down, but smoke drifted over the deserted hutments and across the parade ground where the dead men lay.

I guessed, correctly, that there would always be a need for carpenters, and I was sent to work in a nearby lumber mill where the local pines were sawed up and made into pre-fabricated hutments for the troops.

That would be the artillery unit in their hutments below the ridge.

It was through the southern end of this that the traffic was now attempting to pass: a jumble of stodgy towers and lowflung contemporary hutments which stretched along the dual carriageway almost as far as the amiable sanatorium settlement of Bad Godesberg, whose principal industry, having once been bottled water, is now diplomacy.

We drummed across with the troop at our heels and came into the rear of the Khalsa position - their last line of defence where the general staff directed operations, aides hurried to and fro between the tents and hutments, carts of wounded rum-bled through to the bridge, and all was activity and uproar - but it was a disciplined bedlam, I noticed, in spite of the deafening crash of guns and musketry rolling back from the lines.

The mosaicists neatly inhabited one of a double set of temporary hutments, the other of which was the chaotic province of the fresco painters.

It was a compound of mud-brick hutments surrounded by a high mud wall.

There were branches that were used as pathways across the village, and children's swings made out of the old tree's beards, and in places where the tree stooped low down towards the earth its leaves formed roofs for many a hutment that seemed to hang from the greenery like the nest of a weaver bird.