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Barrack   /bˈærək/  /bˈɛrək/   Listen
noun
Barrack  n.  
1.
(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."
2.
A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. (Local, U.S.)


verb
Barrack  v. t.  To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.


Barrack  v. i.  To live or lodge in barracks.





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"Barrack" Quotes from Famous Books



... take her long to discover the maid's opinion of the establishment in which she served; for while she brandished her broom and duster, this girl, exasperated undoubtedly by the increase of work she saw in store for her, growled and cursed the old barrack where one was worked to death, where one never had enough to eat, and where the wages were always in arrears. Mademoiselle Marguerite was doing her best to aid the maid, who was greatly surprised to find this handsome, queenly young lady so obliging, when Evariste, the same who had received ...
— Baron Trigault's Vengeance - Volume 2 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... related the anecdote to his government with much glee, but it may be doubted whether this bold way of giving the lie to a venerable statesman through his son-in-law would have been accounted as triumphant argumentation anywhere out of a barrack. ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... three thousand pounds in lace, brandy, and tobacco gone to Dartmoor this night. And all them redcoat fellers got was a dead horse and a horse with a water-breaker on him. And the dead horse was their own, and the one they took. I stole 'em out of the barrack stables myself." ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... misliking it for him. The untamed, gentle creature, who knew so little but his goats as yet, whose nights had been passed from childhood a la belle etoile, whose limbs had never been cumbered with broadcloth or belt—for him to be shut up in the barrack of some Lombard city, packed in white conscript's sacking, drilled, taught to read and write, and weighted with the knapsack and the musket! There was something lamentable in the prospect. But such is the burden of man's life, of modern life especially. United Italy demands of her children ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds
... forest-fires of Maine and the Adirondack, or upon the lonely prairies of Kansas. But a stationary tent-life, deliberately going to housekeeping under canvas, I have never had before, though in our barrack-life at "Camp Wool" ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various


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