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Nissen Hut

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Noun

1. nissen hut, quonset hut

a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section

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Nissen Hut

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noun
a military shelter of semicircular cross section, made of corrugated steel sheet
. US and Canadian equivalent: Quonset hut

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Nissen Hut

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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 College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nissen Hut

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n.
A prefabricated building of corrugated steel in the shape of a half cylinder, used especially by military personnel as a shelter.

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