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Quonset hut

1942, from Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island, where this type of structure was first built, 1941. The place name is from a southern New England Algonquian language and perhaps means "small, long place."

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Quonset hut

A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross-section. Developed in the United States, the design was based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I. Hundreds of thousands were produced during World War II and military surplus was sold to the public. The name comes from their site of first manufacture, Quonset Point, at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville (a village located within the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, U.S.).

Usage examples of "quonset hut".

The corporal had been looking for Jones's dog, and he saw the shape of a man standing in the small indention where the cabin and Quonset hut came together.

Tom went to the desk in the office part of the Quonset hut, searched through a file and came up with a slip of paper.

After I dragged him to the door of the Quonset hut, which I had wedged open with the flashlight, I paused to wipe the sweat from my dripping brow - and saw the yellow eyes.

The monster took one more step toward the fleeing Garners, then turned ponderously toward the blazing Quonset hut.

I got you an office, sort of, in a Quonset hut at Camp Elliott, and I thought I should show you where it is.

As they stood by the aircraft with the crew chief, giving him a list of things to check to prepare the plane for flight, a small convoy rolled past the B-17 graveyard and stopped before the Quonset hut.

Hatch stood up from his desk and went to the Quonset hut window, moving carefully through the darkened office.

As he walked back to the coffee-and-doughnuts building, Pickering saw that the people who had been on the Independence and the Bataan were now in separate knotsgathered around a Quonset hut.

Vera had a class but we talked her out of it and assembled behind the Quonset hut.

The lack of resonance in the room, and now in the corridor, suggested that they had stepped from the Quonset hut into the side of the mountain and that they were now walking through its base.