What is "quonset"

Usage examples of "quonset".

As Moon watched, Lum Lee emerged from the door of the little Quonset hut that housed the R.

He had searched for sniper rifles among the weaponry in the Quonset hut, and near a Barrett 1-A had found a case of Steyr longblasters and boxes of ammo, along with the rotary mag they used.

Something like a thousand and one ways to celebrate the holidays in a tentor Quonset hut.

Vineland, all the geometry of the bay neutrally filtered under pre-storm clouds, the crystalline openwork arcs of the pale bridges, a tall power-plant stack whose plume blew straight north, meaning rain on the way, a jet in the sky ascending from Vineland International south of town, the Corps of Engineers marina, with salmon boats, power cruisers, and day sailers all docked together, and spilling uphill from the shoreline a couple of square miles crowded with wood Victorian houses, Quonset sheds, postwar prefab ranch and split-level units, little trailer parks, lumber-baron floridity, New Deal earnestness.

Nor was there any trace of the gengineered vines whose fruit had been dried and carved and fitted out to make the bioform Quonset huts.

Groom Lake Facility, he leaped from the LTD and strode quickly through its growing field of Quonset huts and hangars to where he knew they waited for him, the scientists and technicians who belonged to him now, belonged to the project he oversaw, and which, unlike his father, he would never allow to slip from his grasp.

The physicist had been lying flat on his back on a grease-monkey's sled, apparently examining the chassis of an ugly, buslike vehicle that took up most of the floor space at the north end of the Quonset.

The neighborhood is characterized by light industry, factory outlets, welding shops, and quonset huts where auto body repair work is done.

The bacteriologist led him through the back of the quonset and then out into the heat again, to a light-blue Falcon sedan parked in the rear.

The place was a maze, a rat warren of halfbuilt stores and shops, discarded lengths of pipe, piles of cinderblock and boards, shacks and rusted Quonset huts, all overgrown with scrubby junipers and laurels and witch-grass and blue spruce, blackberry and blackthorn, devil's paintbrush and denuded goldenrod.

Stacks and crates of every description filled the Quonset hut, long rifle boxes, drums of fuel, foot lockers, backpacks, everything his growing army needed.

Shirtless men sit in Quonset huts made stifling by the red-hot tubes of their radios.

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.