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lean-tos

lean-tos is the plural of lean-to.

Meaning of lean-to

Noun

lean-to (plural lean-tos)

  1. A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.
    • 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 dark1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

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Questions about lean-tos

What is lean-tos the plural of?
Lean-tos is the plural of lean-to.

Words near lean-tos in the dictionary

  1. lean, finely textured beef
  2. lean-back
  3. lean-backs
  4. lean-burn
  5. lean-to
  6. lean-tos
  7. lean-witted
  8. Leana
  9. leanback
  10. leanbacks
  11. leanchoiliid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lean-tos (page history and authors); lean-to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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