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barracks
n. a building on a station with roomsfor bachelors. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Reformer,' ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
Originally mere log-huts, but of late extensive houses built for the accommodation and quartering of troops. Also, the portion of the lower deck where the marines mess. Also, little cabins made by Spanish fishermen on the sea-shore, called barracas, whence our name.
n. a building on a station with roomsfor bachelors. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Reformer,' ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris