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.]
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.
I recalled a watch-tower on its summit, a barrack block half way up its face and a wire fence running at right angles to the river. This time the rock loomed up in the last flicker of twilight.
"We were shooting in the exact barrack where the events happened," Loggia recalled. "We were freezing in our prison uniforms and our wooden clogs, filth and mud all about us.
Two soldiers were injured in the bombing of a British barrack in Duesseldorf, West Germany, on Aug. 5.
But as a strong, dry wind began to push us toward the yurts, which with a row of poplars, a washhouse and a kitchen barrack made up the little oasis, it was far enough.