Manage a hut occupied by a group of convicts set to work on a farm.
I hired him as a shepherd and his wife to hut-keep
Example sentencesExamples
- Andy is going to hut-keep for himself, as he cannot agree with the man I sent there.
- These parties were all either shepherding or hut-keeping.
- He was hut-keeping at a small out-station.
- Although only hut keeping, he had been too long on cattlestations not to know the routine of the work.