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
Origin of Nissen hut
after P. N. Nissen (1871-1930), engineer in the Canadian armyNissen hut
Nis·sen hutWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Nissen hut
noun
A prefabricated building of corrugated steel in the shape of a half cylinder, used especially by military personnel as a shelter.
Origin of Nissen hut
After Peter Norman Nissen (1871-1930), British army officer and mining engineerTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural Nissen huts)
- (UK) A prefabricated building, formerly used by the military, having a semicircular roof of corrugated iron
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For Peter Norman Nissen, Canadian engineer
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