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barrack
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barrack \Bar"rack\, v. t. To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Barracks are military housing. Barrack or Barracks may refer to: Barrack (video game) Barracks (band) , post hardcore band from New Zealand Barracks communism , political term A misspelling of the name of Barack Obama Hay barrack is an American term for ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context military chiefly in the plural English) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; ''originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings''. 2 (context chiefly in the plural ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "temporary hut for soldiers during a siege," from French barraque , from Spanish barraca (mid-13c. in Medieval Latin) "soldier's tent," literally "cabin, hut," perhaps from barro "clay, mud," which is probably of Celt-Iberian origin. Meaning "permanent ...
Usage examples of barrack.
When the swayvan with the Sugarat came around the Berth wall and cruised toward the cement modules of the police barracks, Chief Anareta stepped out of the shadows.
Stent and Ogilvy, anticipating some possibilities of a collision, had telegraphed from Horsell to the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence.
She called the traffic tower to ask for another landing slot, preferably nearer the brawn barracks.
After the others on guard had taken their dippings from the tea bucket, Brigg bore it across the parade ground, around the hockey goalposts, and up the sounding stairs to the middle floor of Barrack Block Two.
He found some little water for the gray, and then, hoping the gray would eat what was left in the manger while he was briefly gone, hurried to collect his gear from the barracks bay.
She had been an untamed mestiza of the so-called shopkeeper aristocracy: seductive, rapacious, brazen, with a hunger in her womb that could have satisfied an entire barracks.
It has planned and constructed the many projects required, the most important of which are the new wharves at Bordeaux and Nantes, and the immense storage depots at La Pallice, Montoir, and Gievres, besides innumerable hospitals and barracks in various ports of France.
Rather than admit his failure in obtaining the necessary cut stones or brick required for the barracks, in late summer he had decided to overcut the oaks in the area.
Grudgingly Parral had housed Sten and his mercenaries in one of those mansions, a sprawling marble monstrosity the mercs were happily turning into a cross between a barracks and a bordello.
Hamorians are behind the road- building and the new patroller barracks.
The other was somewhere to the south, near the new south patroller barracks.
Farther ahead, the road turned due south to skirt the long ridge that overlooked the new patroller barracks and camp.
Kharl could just make out, over the tops of the woodlot trees ahead to his left, the beginning of the long ridge to the north of the southern patroller barracks.
This stylish platting technique is modeled after the marine barracks at Camp Lejeune.
There was to be a dinner on Monday night at the barracks on the Prati, and on Tuesday morning the King was to present medals.