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leanto

leanto is the alternative form 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

Forms of leanto

pluralleantos

Questions about leanto

What is leanto the alternative form of?
Leanto is the alternative form of lean-to.

Words near leanto in the dictionary

  1. leant in
  2. leant into
  3. leant on
  4. leant over backwards
  5. leant towards
  6. leanto
  7. leantos
  8. leany
  9. Leaotung
  10. leap
  11. leap ahead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leanto (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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