"messhall" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1964, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Military Construction Appropriations for 1965: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, volume 1, page 750",
          "text": "On either side of the messhall are the barracks, which we request authority to replace. They are not at present connected to the messhall, but they are adjacent on either side.",
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