barrack1
[bar-uh k]
- a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison.
- any large, plain building in which many people are lodged.
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- to lodge in barracks.
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Origin of barrack1
1680–90; < French baraque, Middle French < Catalan barraca hut, of obscure origin
barrack2
[bar-uh k]Australian British
- to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.
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- to shout for or against.
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Origin of barrack2
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Examples from the Web for barrack
Contemporary Examples
There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack.
Hafrich shouts that he should return to the barrack, but the man keeps going.
The Arab media has taken note of the president taking the oath of office using his full name—Barrack Hussein Obama.
Historical Examples
By barrack and camp life the normal civilian intellect is, as it were, marooned.
Another SheafJohn Galsworthy
Beg pardon, sir; but you are the gentleman from the barrack, sir?
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, CompleteCharles James Lever (1806-1872)
I know he's here, for I heard him as I crossed the barrack square.
VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the CrimeaDavid Christie Murray
It is fast falling into ruin since it was abandoned as a barrack.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745Mrs. Thomson
It is a wooden structure, looking more like a barrack than a castle.
Over the Rocky Mountains to AlaskaCharles Warren Stoddard
barrack1
- to house (people, esp soldiers) in barracks
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barrack2
- to criticize loudly or shout against (a player, team, speaker, etc); jeer
- (intr foll by for) to shout support (for)
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Word Origin
C19: from northern Irish: to boast
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Word Origin and History for barrack
n.
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.
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