Associations to the word «Quonset»

Wiktionary

QUONSET, noun. (US) A prefabricated building having a semicircular roof of corrugated iron; a Quonset hut.
QUONSET HUT, noun. A lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross section.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats