quonset hut
棚屋,矮屋,帐篷屋,帐篷小屋
Definitions
- 1
Trademark.
- : a semicylindrical metal shelter having end walls, usually serving as a barracks, storage shed, or the like, developed for the U.S. military forces from the British Nissen hut at Quonset Naval Base in Rhode Island.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Sputtering, I manage a few “hut-hut-huts” with the other students.
Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.
On every trip to a village, a hospital, a hut, Breman and the others carried an invisible burden: they could be next.
In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.
We shot it in Belfast at a legit hut on location rather than a studio.
To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.
It was only a hut of rough boards, carelessly knocked together for a shepherd's temporary home.
Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.