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Nis·sen hut (nis′ən)

noun

a prefabricated shelter of corrugated metal shaped like a cylinder cut vertically in two and resting on its flat surface: first used by the Brit. Army in WWI

Etymology: after P. N. Nissen (1871-1930), engineer in the Cdn army

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