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Quonset hut definition

☆ Quon·set hut (kwän′sit)

a prefabricated shelter made of corrugated metal, shaped like a longitudinal half of a cylinder resting on its flat surface

Etymology: < Quonset, a trademark, after Quonset Point, R.I., where first manufactured

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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