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What is a lean-to?

What is a lean-to? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.
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He had spent the last two days lost in the Sierra Nevada mountains enduring subfreezing temperatures, with only a crudely built lean-to shelter and no food.
She walked around their lean-to and gathered the sticky residue from the balsam fir trees.
They had a hotplate on their covered balcony for cooking and a little lean-to with a hole in the floor for a washroom.
She'd found plenty of driftwood and deadfalls in the vicinity of the gazebo, enough to construct a crude lean-to on the creek bank.
Winter was coming, and his lean-to shelter would be no protection against that.
He wiped moisture from his muzzle and ducked back under the meagre cover his crude lean-to offered.

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