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17-401: Unlike huts , shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually rural and made of natural materials (mud, rocks, sticks, etc.) shacks are generally composed of scavenged man-made materials like abandoned construction debris , repurposed consumer waste and other useful discarded objects that can be quickly acquired at little or no cost and fashioned into

34-660: A tent and is used as temporary or seasonal shelter or as a permanent dwelling in some indigenous societies. Huts exist in practically all nomadic cultures. Some huts are transportable and can stand most conditions of weather. The term is often employed by people who consider non-western style homes in tropical and sub-tropical areas to be crude or primitive, but often the designs are based on traditions of local craftsmanship using sophisticated architectural techniques. The designs in tropical and sub-tropical areas favour high airflow configurations built from non-conducting materials, which allow heat dissipation. The term house or home

51-637: A common form of very low-cost housing in the rural United States and Canada. In the frontier history of the United States, freethinkers have often used shacks—small, rundown buildings or structures—as a place to develop new ideas outside the literal confines of the establishment. Professor Michael Lannoo and science writer and editor Eric Engles note the role of shacks in American culture as simple structures that "allow an uncluttered perspective on life's larger questions". Lanoo writes that shacks played

68-416: A covering. Huts are used by shepherds when moving livestock between seasonal grazing areas such as mountainous and lowland pastures ( transhumance ). They are also commonly used by backpackers and other travelers in rural areas. Some displaced populations of people use huts throughout the world during a diaspora . For example, temporary collectors in the wilderness agricultural workers at plantations in

85-462: A fun and friendly atmosphere. Examples include Pizza Hut and Sunglass Hut . Kiosks may be constructed to look like huts and are often found at parks , malls , beaches, or other public places, selling a variety of inexpensive food or goods. Luxury hotels in tropical areas where guests are assigned to occupy their own freestanding structure sometimes call the structure a "hut", though such huts typically bear little more than superficial resemblance to

102-458: A large role in the development of environmental and ecological ideas and philosophy in the United States, allowing people to interact with and investigate nature at a closer level, particularly in the work of Henry David Thoreau , John Muir , Aldo Leopold , and Ed Ricketts . These shacks also served as a meeting place for like-minded people. Hut A hut is a small dwelling , which may be constructed of various local materials. Huts are

119-404: A small dwelling . In areas of high population density and high poverty, shacks are often the most prevalent form of housing; it is possible that up to a billion people worldwide live in shacks. Fire is a significant hazard in tight-knit shack settlements. Settlements composed mostly or entirely of shacks are known as slums or shanty towns . In Australian English , shack can also refer to

136-432: A small holiday house with limited conveniences, for instance it may not have running water or electricity. In Canadian oilfield drilling, a shack can also be the word for a wellsite trailer. These structures are notorious among oilfield workers for being cramped, uncomfortable and generally unpleasant to be in. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, tar paper shacks consisting of wooden frames covered with tar paper were

153-414: A type of vernacular architecture because they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, clay, hides, fabric, or mud using techniques passed down through the generations. The construction of a hut is generally less complex than that of a house (durable, well-built dwelling) but more so than that of a shelter (place of refuge or safety) such as

170-513: Is considered by some to be more appropriate. In the Western world the word hut is often used for a wooden shed . The term has also been adopted by climbers and backpackers to refer to a more solid and permanent structure offering refuge. These vary from simple bothies – which are little more than very basic shelters – to mountain huts that are far more luxurious and can even include facilities such as restaurants . The word comes from

187-656: Is dependent, among other things, on the underlying rock. Sheepwalk is also the name of townlands in County Roscommon , Ireland , and County Fermanagh , Northern Ireland . Unlike factory farming , which entails in its most intensive form entirely trough-feeding, managed or unmanaged pasture is the main food source for ruminants . Pasture feeding dominates livestock farming where the land makes crop sowing or harvesting (or both) difficult, such as in arid or mountainous regions, where types of camel , goat , antelope , yak and other ruminants live which are well suited to

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204-492: Is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for animal fodder . Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands , other unenclosed pastoral systems , and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing . Pasture lands in the narrow sense are distinguished from rangelands by being managed through more intensive agricultural practices of seeding , irrigation , and

221-456: The Amazon jungle. Huts have been built for purposes other than as a dwelling such as storage, workshops, and teaching. Many huts are designed to be relatively quick and inexpensive to build. Construction often does not require specialized tools or knowledge. The term Hut is also used to name many commercial stores, companies, and concepts. The name implies a small, casual venue, often with

238-587: The 1650s, from French hutte "cottage" (16c.), from Middle High German hütte "cottage, hut," probably from Proto-Germanic *hudjon-, related to the root of Old English hydan "to hide," from PIE *keudh-, from root (s)keu- (see hide (n.1)). Apparently first in English as a military word. Old Saxon hutta, Danish hytte, Swedish hytta, West Frisian and Middle Dutch hutte, Dutch hut are from High German. Ukrainian khata seems to be known from even earlier ages. Avestan or ancient Iranian origins presumably." related to hide ,

255-410: The more hostile terrain and very rarely factory-farmed. In more humid regions, pasture grazing is managed across a large global area for free range and organic farming . Certain types of pasture suit the diet, evolution and metabolism of particular animals, and their fertilising and tending of the land may over generations result in the pasture combined with the ruminants in question being integral to

272-538: The traditional concept of a hut. Pasture Pasture (from the Latin pastus , past participle of pascere , "to feed") is land used for grazing . Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland , grazed by domesticated livestock , such as horses , cattle , sheep , or swine . The vegetation of tended pasture, forage , consists mainly of grasses , with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Pasture

289-426: The use of fertilizers , while rangelands grow primarily native vegetation, managed with extensive practices like controlled burning and regulated intensity of grazing. Soil type, minimum annual temperature , and rainfall are important factors in pasture management. Sheepwalk is an area of grassland where sheep can roam freely. The productivity of sheepwalk is measured by the number of sheep per area. This

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