Crossword clues for barrack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barrack \Bar"rack\, n. [F. baraque, fr. It. baracca (cf. Sp. barraca), from LL. barra bar. See Bar, n.]
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(Mil.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw.
--Gibbon. A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]
Barrack \Bar"rack\, v. t. To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
Barrack \Bar"rack\, v. i. To live or lodge in barracks.
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 building for housing troops" (usually in plural) is attested from 1690s.
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 English) primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes 3 (context chiefly in the plural English) any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building 4 (context US regional English) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. 5 (context Ireland colloquial usually in the plural English) A police station. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To house military personnel; to quarter. 2 (context intransitive English) To live in barracks. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context British transitive English) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means. 2 (context Australia New Zealand intransitive English) To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).
WordNet
n. a building used to house military personnel
v. lodge in barracks
urge on or encourage especially by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, inspire, urge, urge on, exhort, pep up]
laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, gibe]
Gazetteer
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 a farm structure to store hay, known in the U.K. as a Dutch barn
- "Barrack" is also an Australian colloquialism meaning to support or encourage, particularly for a sporting team or individual
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.