• IPA: /lin.tu/

lean-to

1. A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.
   • 1884 December 9, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 40, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182 ↗:

     Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark