hangar
(See below)
[Fr.; ulterior origin uncertain: see Du Cange, Diez, Littré.]
‖ a. (hɑ̃gar). A covered space, shed, or shelter, esp. for carriages.
| 1852 Thackeray Esmond iii. xiii, Mademoiselle, may we take your coach to town? I saw it in the hangar. 1861 tr. Du Chaillu's Equat. Afr. xv. 253 The people gathered..under the immense hangar or covered space. 1886 Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbo vii, The rumbling chariot..halted under a wide hangar. |
b. (ˈhæŋə(r)). A shed for the accommodation of aircraft or spacecraft.
| 1902 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 5/3 Mr. Santos Dumont..will construct a hangar in the Bois de Boulogne. 1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come ix. 48 Inside an aeroplane hangar. 1962 A. Shepard in Into Orbit 97, I tried to avoid moving into Hangar S—our quarters at the Cape—for as long as I could. 1962 V. Grissom Ibid. 119 On 1 July the capsule was taken from the hangar to the launching pad to be mated to the Redstone. |