Quonset hut

[ kwon-sit ]

/ ˈkwɒn sɪt /

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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.

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How to use Quonset hut in a sentence

Sputtering, I manage a few “hut-hut-huts” with the other students.
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Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.
The Original Ebola Hunter|Abby Haglage|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On every trip to a village, a hospital, a hut, Breman and the others carried an invisible burden: they could be next.
The Original Ebola Hunter|Abby Haglage|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.
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We shot it in Belfast at a legit hut on location rather than a studio.
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To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for Quonset hut

Quonset hut

/ (ˈkwɒnsɪt) /

noun

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

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