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View synonyms for Quonset hut

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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