hangar

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On a table at each entrance to the hangar was a small box with a hole in the top.

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  1. noun A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft.

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  • It was a huge building of brick, of steel--Doc Savage's water-front airplane hangar and boathouse This hangar was as much a secret as it was possible to keep it. —  042 - The Midas Man
  • Half-filling the hangar was the Wyvyrn he had met earlier --or one just like it--curled up with its wings folded back along its body, its head segment raised to face the hangar door. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 05 - May 2000
  • Although Petters Aviation had opened an operation at the hangar, the company only sold planes there and never performed outfitting work, said MAC spokesman Patrick Hogan. —  Minneapolis Business News - Local Minneapolis News | The Minneapolis / St Paul Business Journal
  • "When the planes are beside the hangar, the keys are kept in the aircraft."
  • Meanwhile, the club, which was launched close to the center of St. Petersburg with a concert by Leningrad on Nov. 7, turned out to be nice enough, well-organized and on the up, even if it does look a little like a hangar or a Lenta supermarket. —  The St. Petersburg Times
 

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  1. French, from Old French hangard, of Germanic origin; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.
 

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