Wood cabin sheltering emotionless rangers? (5)
I believe the answer is:
hurst
'wood' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'cabin sheltering emotionless rangers?' is the wordplay.
'cabin' becomes 'hut' (both can mean a small building).
'sheltering' is an insertion indicator.
'emotionless rangers?' becomes 'rs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hut' going around 'rs' is 'HURST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hurst that I've seen before include "Grove" , "World Cup hero" , "Wooded rise (archaic)" , "A few ashes maybe" , "wood" .)