A hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob sojourned for a season at a place named from this circumstance Succoth (Genesis 33:17). Booths were erected also at the feast of Tabernacles (q.v.), Leviticus 23:42, 43, which commemorated the abode of the Israelites in the wilderness.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

2. (n.) A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.