hutting

hutting is the present participle and gerund of hut.

Noun

hutting (countable and uncountable, plural huttings)

(uncountable) The practice of living in a hut.
- The sixty-five remaining hutters were evicted in 2012. It was a similar story at Rascarrel in Galloway. Some hutting sites like Seton Sands in East Lothian became caravan sites […]2015, John Bryden, Northern Neighbours
(countable, historical) A hovel or slum building in parts of Asia.

hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)

(archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
- to hut troops in winter quarters
(archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
- Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219
(obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
- The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain, volume 2, Edinburgh, page 417

plural	huttings

What does hutting mean?: Hutting means the practice of living in a hut.
What is hutting the present participle and gerund of?: Hutting is the present participle and gerund of hut.
What part of speech is hutting?: Hutting is a noun.
What is the plural of hutting?: The plural of hutting is huttings.

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