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Scots mountain hut
Answer for the clue "Scots mountain hut ", 5 letters:
bothy
Word definitions for bothy in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland English) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. (from 18th c.)
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are to be found in remote, mountainous areas of Scotland ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bothy \Both"y\Boothy \Booth"y\ n.; pl. -ies [Scottish. Cf. Booth .] A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of bothy.
And over there were the bothies of the savages who had been here first.
From May through September the Fianna lived off the land, wandering, hunting, building rude bothies in the forests of Eire.
His only other possession was a flint-and-steel striker tied to a leather loop, hung on a knot inside the door of the bothy and used only in the rarest circumstance to light the fire when the embers had gone out and could not be coaxed to life once more.
I dragged myself into the bothy and went to sleep, waking the next morning at dawn.
Birds darted among the branches of the trees behind the bothy, spilling liquid song into the soft summer air.
I finished, I washed my face and then eased myself down to sit in the sun with my back against the bothy wall.
He had put the poor creature out of its misery, skinned and cleaned it with his flint knife, and brought the carcass back to the bothy for us to eat.
Taking flaming branches from the fire, we walked around the perimeter of the sheep pen and up to the bothy and wood beyond, finding no end of tracks-so many that it was impossible to say how large the pack had been.
The way he said it gave me to know he had no intention of leaving his sheepfold and bothy for the safety of the rath.
It was too far back to the bothy to fetch it, so we huddled down behind some rocks, and I spent the day shivering and listening to the old shepherd snuffling and sniveling until, at last, he rose and declared it time to gather the flock.
Nevertheless, he seemed to know where he was going and made no further attempt to discourage me, and we soon came to a rocky place on the mountainside: an outcropping of huge old stones, some of them larger than the bothy and covered with moss and lichen.
He looked around the area of my tiny settlement with the bothy, the fire ring, the sheepfold below and the forest above.
I simply hauled the carcass back to the bothy, took the pelt, and gorged on the meat until I grew sick.
I shuffled on her arm to the basin and carefully stepped in, holding to the side of the bothy with my good hand.
Even with the heated stones, the water was still icy cold, and I had to cling to the rough timber of the bothy to remain standing as Sionan doused me until I was drenched, and then she began to wash me.