Nissen Hut Definition

nĭsən
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.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Nissen Hut

Noun

Singular:
Nissen hut
Plural:
nissen-huts

Origin of Nissen Hut

  • After Peter Norman Nissen (1871–1930), British army officer and mining engineer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • For Peter Norman Nissen, Canadian engineer

    From Wiktionary

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