Quonset hut

[ kwon-sit ]

Trademark.

1. 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.

Quonset hut

/ ˈkwɒnsɪt /

noun

1. a military shelter made of corrugated steel sheet, having a semicircular cross section Brit equivalentNissen hut

Example Sentences

They were divided into two rooms with a bath room each side, each half of the quonset hut.

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No, sir; we had them in the armory, in the quonset hut designated as the armory.

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So you and Oswald were actually quartered in the same quonset hut up to the time Oswald was discharged?

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Do you remember an occasion on which he was transferred out of a quonset hut because of a refusal to clean up?

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Another half-hour taxi ride over dusty desert roads would bring him to the glorified quonset hut his brother called home.

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