barracks

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a building on a station with roomsfor bachelors.

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Reformer,' p. 100

«A roomy, roughly-finished building known as the `barracks.'. . . . Three of the numerous bedrooms were tenanted by youngmen, . . . neophytes, who were gradually assimilating the loveof Bush-land.»

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