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barrack¹ Definition

bar·rack (barək, ber-)

noun

  1. Rare an improvised hut
    1. a building or group of buildings for housing soldiers
    2. a large, plain, often temporary building for housing workmen, police, etc.

Etymology: Fr baraque < Sp barraca, cabin, mud hut < barro, clay, mud < VL *barrum, clay

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to house in barracks

barrack² Definition

bar·rack (barək, ber-)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Chiefly Austral. to jeer or shout at (a player, team, performer, etc.)

barrack Usage Examples

Object

  • block: At the end of the barrack block would be a slightly larger room where their officer would live.
  • hut: A block of four airmen's barrack huts, nearest Watnall Hall, was of temporary brick construction.
  • room: Visitors today can see historic barrack rooms which are a time capsule of the domestic life of the Scottish soldier.
  • gate: We were soon disillusioned when we saw the barrack gates and a burly sergeant striding out in front of the Guard Room.
  • accommodation: Later the barrack accommodation was used by soldiers doing their annual firing course at the nearby Milton range.
  • building: View from the top of the keep showing 18th century barrack buildings in the inner bailey, with Palace Gate in the center.

Used with why or when

  • where: They all slept in one room in the old barrack where they were living until the new house was habitable.

Adjective complement

  • square: I remembered not to walk across the barrack square, You must always walk around it.

Modifying Another Word

  • in: This action was still being practiced in barrack rooms up until 1868.
  • probably: Descending to the basement level, a row of massive vaulted chambers is reached, Frankish 14th century work, probably barrack accommodation.
  • constantly: How does it help a player's form to constantly barrack him?

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