hangar

What it means

1. A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept.

   The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.

   2 more examples

   By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts.

   1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9

   "Yeah. That's only thing they're good for." "Let's do it the other way around," Juanita says. She gets up and walks off the hangar deck.

   1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 402

2. obsoleteA covered shed for carriages.

In a sentence

The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs.

Where it comes from

1. Frankish*haimgard“fence around a group of houses”
2. Old Frenchhangart
3. Middle Frenchhanghart“enclosure near a house”
4. Frenchhangar“shed, hangar”
5. Englishhangar

Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard.