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

After 50 years, Hodges still owns the Quonset hut that houses the club.

From Los Angeles Times

The winery’s centerpiece is a Quonset hut, once a tractor and farm equipment storage shed turned into a rustic chic event space.

From Seattle Times

The Quonset hut, now painted vivid green, never was truly a museum and is currently used as convenient storage for the cafe, though on the outside, it still dresses the part.

From Seattle Times

Tom, who refers to himself as “The Surf God” and eschews Mindy’s bourgeois crowd as “kooks,” convinces Ginger to camp in his sand-bound Quonset hut and steal food for him as he pursues dead-end schemes.

From Los Angeles Times

At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, there are approximately 76,000 containers of ethanol specimens, mostly stored in a World War-II-era Quonset hut, which is made from corrugated steel and is uninsulated.

From Salon