Quonset hut

[ kwon-sit ]

/ ˈkwɒn sɪt /

Trademark.

a semicylindrical metal shelter having end walls, usually serving as a barracks, storage shed, or the like, developed for the U.S. military forces from the British Nissen hut at Quonset Naval Base in Rhode Island.

Example sentences from the Web for quonset

Heathrow was just a collection of Quonset huts, and the airfield was enrobed in fog.

The New Fear of Flying After MH370 |Clive Irving |March 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
They were divided into two rooms with a bath room each side, each half of the quonset hut.

Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
No, sir; we had them in the armory, in the quonset hut designated as the armory.

Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
We lived in quonset huts there, and he lived in a different hut than I did.

Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

And that the other members of his quonset hut said he was at fault.

Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Do you remember an occasion on which he was transferred out of a quonset hut because of a refusal to clean up?

Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for quonset

Quonset hut

/ (ˈkwɒnsɪt) /

noun

trademark US a military shelter made of corrugated steel sheet, having a semicircular cross section Brit equivalent: Nissen hut

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Quonset hut

Trademark.

Example sentences from the Web for quonset

British Dictionary definitions for quonset

noun