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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BAR'RACK, n. A hut or house for soldiers, especially in garrison. In Spain, a hut or cabin for fishermen.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel v
1: lodge in barracks
2: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up]
3: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French baraque hut, from Catalan barraca Date: 1686 1. a building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison 2. a. a structure resembling a shed or barn that provides temporary housing b. housing characterized by extreme plainness or dreary uniformity — usually used in plural in all senses II. transitive verb Date: 1701 to lodge in barracks III. verb Etymology: perhaps from dialect (northern Ireland) barrack to brag Date: 1887 transitive verb chiefly British to shout at derisively or sarcastically intransitive verb 1. chiefly Australian root, cheer — usually used with for 2. chiefly British jeer, scoff • barracker noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. (usu. in pl., often treated as sing.) 1 a building or building complex used to house soldiers. 2 any building used to accommodate large numbers of people. 3 a large building of a bleak or plain appearance. --v.tr. place (soldiers etc.) in barracks. Phrases and idioms: barrack-room lawyer Brit. a pompously argumentative person. barrack-square a drill-ground near a barracks. Etymology: F baraque f. It. baracca or Sp. barraca soldier's tent, of unkn. orig. 2. v. Brit. 1 tr. shout or jeer at (players in a game, a performer, speaker, etc.). 2 intr. (of spectators at games etc.) shout or jeer. Etymology: app. f. BORAK

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Barrack Bar"rack, n. [F. baraque, fr. It. baracca (cf. Sp. barraca), from LL. barra bar. See Bar, 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. --Gibbon. 2. A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Barrack Bar"rack, v. i. To live or lodge in barracks.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(barracks, barracking, barracked) 1. A barracks is a building or group of buildings where soldiers or other members of the armed forces live and work. 'Barracks' is the singular and plural form. ...an army barracks in the north of the city. N-COUNT: oft in names 2. If people in an audience barrack public speakers or performers, they interrupt them, for example by making rude remarks. (BRIT) Fans gained more enjoyment barracking him than cheering on the team... = heckle VERB: V n • barracking He was affected badly by the barracking that he got from the crowd. = heckling