skillion / linhay
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prettygoodwordskillion (SKIL-yuhn) - n., (Aus.) a lean-to attached to a building, esp. with a sloping roof not attached to the main roof.
linhay (LIN-ee) - n., (West Eng., N. Ire., Newf.) a lean-to attached to a building, esp. with an open front wall.
And I'm sure there's many other dialect terms for this sort of thing, and I've just not come-across them. Skillion was originally (as skilling or skyling) a Middle English word of uncertain origin that survived the longest in South England, first recorded Down Under in the 1860s. Linhay, also spelled linny or linney, is similarly obscure, but possibly related to Old English hlinian, to lean, + -hay, an enclosed space.
---L.
linhay (LIN-ee) - n., (West Eng., N. Ire., Newf.) a lean-to attached to a building, esp. with an open front wall.
And I'm sure there's many other dialect terms for this sort of thing, and I've just not come-across them. Skillion was originally (as skilling or skyling) a Middle English word of uncertain origin that survived the longest in South England, first recorded Down Under in the 1860s. Linhay, also spelled linny or linney, is similarly obscure, but possibly related to Old English hlinian, to lean, + -hay, an enclosed space.
---L.
