Crossword clues for casern
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casern \Ca"sern\, n. [F. caserne.]
A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the
rampart; barracks.
--Bescherelle.
Wiktionary
n. A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.
WordNet
n. military barracks in a garrison town
Wikipedia
A casern, also spelled cazern or caserne, is a military barracks in a garrison town. In French-speaking countries, a caserne de pompier is a fire station.
In fortification, caserns are little rooms, lodgments, or apartments, erected between the ramparts, and the houses of fortified towns, or even on the ramparts themselves; to serve as lodgings for the soldiers of the garrison, to ease the garrison, in Portugal and Brazil "Quartel" (derived for 4 faces).
There are usually two beds in each casern, for six soldiers to lie, who mount the guard alternately; the third part being always on duty.
Category:Fortification (architectural elements) Category:Barracks
Usage examples of "casern".
Memories of warm nights in barracks and the casern, all his old friends, strong young men, laughter and dice, drink and the laughing friendly whores.
Heart left them at the gates of the Southern Casern, District thirty-five, before riding off toward the north.
Send young Captain Derrick to the Southern Casern to question the rescued children.
I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before.
There are huge caserns in every part of the city, crowded with troops.