Quonset
/ˈkwɒnsɪt
/(also Quonset hut)
noun North American trademark
A building made of corrugated metal and having a semicircular cross section.This portion of the roofing industry has come a long way from the corrugated tin of the Quonset hut....
- The building resembles a gigantic Quonset hut with a control tower and several other buildings attached.
- These steel and fiberboard buildings were akin to the American Quonsets.
Origin
Second World War: named after Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where such huts were first made.
- lay down (one's) arms
- lay down one's arms (or weapons)
- lay down one's life
- lay down the law
- layer
- layer cake
- layer cut
- layer dressing
- layering
- layer-out
- layette
- lay eyes on
- lay figure
- lay hands on (also lay or put one's hands on)
- lay hold of (or on)
- lay into
- lay it on the line
- layman
- lay off
- lay oneself out to do something
- lay (or give) odds
- lay (or put) it on the line
- La'youn
- layout
- lay over