Other forms: lean-tos
A lean-to is a simple shelter with a single sloping roof. Build a lean-to.
It leans against something else, which is where the whole design and the name come from. A lean-to is the quickest shelter to build in a wood and the easiest to get wrong in wind.
1nounlean-toA simple shelter with a single sloping roof.
“The lean-to against the barn held everything nobody wanted indoors.”
lean-to is a shelter.
From lean plus to, first attested in 1461 for a building leaning against another.
First attested 1461.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Camping & Outdoors