He makes a hut out of a quantity of timber (6)

I believe the answer is:

hubert

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'he' is the definition.

'a hut out of a quantity of timber' is the wordplay.
'out of' means to remove the last letter (I've seen 'out' mean this).
'a quantity of timber' becomes 'bert' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'hut' with its final letter removed is 'hu'.
'hu'+'bert'='HUBERT'

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