Meanings
nounAnderson shelter (plural Anderson shelters)
plural Anderson shelters
- An air-raid shelter made from curved and straight galvanised corrugated steel panels.
The now familiar Anderson air-raid shelter, officially described as "the galvanised corrugated steel shelter," was manufactured in sections by numbers of firms in different parts of the country.
1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 313
Origin
Named after Sir John Anderson, who initiated the development of the shelter.
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