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noun

Lean-to n.

(Arch.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; called also penthouse, and to-fall. "The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment."

A crude, usually temporary shelter comprising a lean-to roof braced against any convenient support, as a wall, a tree or a pole. The roof may extend all the way to the ground.

adjective

Lean-to adj. (Arch.) Having only one slope or pitch; said of a roof.

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Etymology of 'Lean-to'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lean-to" Quotes from Famous Books

... This girl had cried herself to sleep; the tears were even still wet upon her eyelashes. Grannie had come into the room and looked at Alison. Alison and Polly slept together in the tiniest little offshoot of the kitchen—it was more a sort of lean-to than a room; the roof sloped so much that by the window, and where the little dressing-table stood, only a very small person could keep upright. Grannie belonged to the very small order of women. She always held herself ...

— Good Luck • L. T. Meade

... the cabin and into the little lean-to behind it where the horses were tethered. There she swung her saddle with expert hands, whipped up the cinch, and pulled it with the strength of a man, mounted, and was ...

— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

... few days made it capable to shelter them all in case of bad weather; and in which there was an old chimney and an old oven, though both lying in ruins, yet they made them both fit for use; and, raising additions, sheds, and lean-to's[218] on every side, they soon made the house ...

— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe

... the race, for a lean-to shed on his side of the wall put a stop to further pursuit, and Dan'l, who looked as malicious as a savage after a wild beast, had ...

— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn

... for at least thirty-five feet in height under the overhanging cornice. The fallen matter consists of the disintegration of the projecting lip. Against the cliff, under the shelter of the rock, as already said, are cottages with lean-to roofs, internally with the back and with at least half the ceiling composed of the rock. In one of these Lartet and Christy began to sink a pit, beside the owner's bed, and the work was carried on to conclusion by the late Dr. Massenat. The well ...

— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

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