what is a barrack
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Barracks A barrack or barracks is a building or group of buildings built to house soldiers. The English word comes via French from an old Catalan word barraca (hut), originally referring to temporary shelters or huts for various people and animals, but today barracks are usually permanent buildings for military accommodation.arrack accommodation at the time was provided for a mere 20,000. To deal with the situation, responsibility for building barracks was transferred in 1792 from the Board of Ordnance to a specialist Barracks Department overseen by the War Office.
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Garrison Garrison (various spellings) (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, to equip) is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base. The garrison is usually in a city, town, fort, castle, ship or similar.
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Definition of 'rucksack' rucksack. n. 1. a large bag, usually having two straps and a supporting frame, carried on the back and often used by climbers, campers, etc.US and Canadian name: backpack.[C19: from German, literally: back sack].ucksack. n. 1. a large bag, usually having two straps and a supporting frame, carried on the back and often used by climbers, campers, etc. US and Canadian name: backpack. [C19: from German, literally: back sack].
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- A muster drill in progress on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. A muster drill in progress on the Coral Princess. A muster drill (also sometimes referred to as a lifeboat drill or a boat drill) is an exercise conducted by the crew of a ship prior to embarking on a voyage. muster drill in progress on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. A muster drill in progress on the Coral Princess. A muster drill (also sometimes referred to as a lifeboat drill or a boat drill) is an exercise conducted by the crew of a ship prior to embarking on a voyage.
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Definitions &Translations Pillory. The pillory was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse, sometimes lethal. The pillory is related to the stocks.
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barricade 1. 1  a. A usually improvised structure set up, as across a route of access, to obstruct the passage of an enemy or opponent. 2  b. A usually temporary structure set up to restrict or control the movement of people or conveyances: stood behind the barricades watching the parade.
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Xerostomia Xerostomia may be caused by autoimmune damage to the salivary glands. Sjögren's syndrome is one such disease, and it causes other symptoms, including xerophthalmia (dry eyes), dry vagina, fatigue, myalgia (muscle pain), and arthralgia (joint pain).
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manger a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat. 2. Nautical. a space at the bow of a ship, having a partition for confining water entering at the hawseholes until it can be drained. a sunken bottom in a chain locker, covered by a grating and used to collect water from the anchor chain.
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barracuda barracudas. 1  1 : any of a genus (Sphyraena of the family Sphyraenidae) of elongate predaceous often large bony fishes of warm seas that includes food and sport fishes as well as some forms frequently causing ciguatera poisoning. 2  2 : one that uses aggressive, selfish, and sometimes unethical methods to obtain a goal especially in business.
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barratry noun, Law. 1. fraud by a master or crew at the expense of the owners of the ship or its cargo. 2. the offense of frequently exciting and stirring up lawsuits and quarrels. 3. the purchase or sale of ecclesiastical preferments or of offices of state.
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Barathea Barathea, sometimes spelled barrathea, is a soft fabric, with a hopsack twill weave giving a surface that is lightly pebbled or ribbed. The yarns use cover various combinations of wool, silk and cotton.arathea, sometimes spelled barrathea, is a soft fabric, with a hopsack twill weave giving a surface that is lightly pebbled or ribbed. The yarns use cover various combinations of wool, silk and cotton.
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- uk Babymel PowBoy Rucksack THIS rucksack is covered in noisy words like Pow and Boom, and has padded shoulder straps, an external bottle pocket, pen pockets, a webbed grab-top handle and wipe-clean linings.
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Backpack A backpack — also called bookbag, kitbag, knapsack, rucksack, pack, sackpack or backsack — is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be variations to this basic design.
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- Definition of barracuda - a large predatory tropical marine fish with a slender body and large jaws and teeth. Definition of barracuda - a large predatory tropical marine fish with a slender body and large jaws and teeth.
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- Definition of BARRACK. 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.ADVERTISEMENT.efinition of BARRACK for Kids. : a building or group of buildings in which soldiers live —usually used in pl.
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barrack 1 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.
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- Dockage is defined under the Canada Grain Act as any material intermixed with a parcel of grain, other than kernels of grain of a standard of quality fixed by or under this Act for a grade of that grain, that must and can be separated from the parcel of grain before that grade can be assigned to the grain.taghead or white rust is a fungal disease of Brassica rapa canola. It affects the flowering parts of the plant, resulting in distorted antler-like structures that are often covered by white or grey powdery spores. For grading, staghead bodies are considered Conspicuous admixture.
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- Definition of BARR BODY. : a densely staining inactivated condensed X chromosome that is present in each somatic cell of most female mammals and is used as a test of genetic femaleness (as in a fetus) —called also sex chromatin. ADVERTISEMENT. Murray Llewellyn Barr †1995 Canadian anatomist.
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- Define barracoon: an enclosure or barracks formerly used for temporary confinement of slaves or convicts —often used in plural an enclosure or barracks formerly used for temporary confinement of slaves or convicts —often used in plural…
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- 1. countable noun. A shanty is a small rough hut which poor people live in, built from tin, cardboard, or other materials that are not very strong. 2. countable noun. A shanty is a song which sailors used to sing while they were doing work on a ship.
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barrack Noun [edit]. barrack ‎(plural barracks). ( 1 military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.arrack ‎(third-person singular simple present barracks, present participle barracking, simple past and past participle barracked). ( 1 transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter. 2  1825, Richard Carlile, The Republican, Volume 11, page 276,
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- Definition of 'barratry'. Word Frequency. barratry or barretry (ˈbærətrɪ ) noun. 1. criminal law. (formerly) the vexatious stirring up of quarrels or bringing of lawsuits. 2. maritime law. a fraudulent practice committed by the master or crew of a ship to the prejudice of the owner or charterer. 3. Scots law. the crime committed by a judge in accepting a bribe.
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Cooper (profession) A cask is any piece of cooperage containing a bouge, bilge, or bulge in the middle of the container. A barrel is a type of cask, so the terms barrel-maker and barrel-making refer to just one aspect of a cooper's work. The facility in which casks are made is also referred to as a cooperage. There were four divisions in the cooper's craft. The dry or slack cooper made containers that would be used to ship dry goods such as cereals, nails, tobacco, fruits, and vegetables.
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Barramundi ( Lates calcarifer) Photographs and Information Barramundi are a lso known as Sea Bass, Barra, giant perch, giant sea perch, silver barramundi. The name Barramundi came from an Aboriginal word that means large scaled river fish.Barramundi are harvested as part of the set gill net fishery on the eastern coast of Queensland and in the Gulf of Carpentaria.arramundi are a lso known as Sea Bass, Barra, giant perch, giant sea perch, silver barramundi. The name Barramundi came from an Aboriginal word that means large scaled river fish.
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bulwark 1. (Fortifications) a wall or similar structure used as a fortification; rampart. 2. a person or thing acting as a defence against injury, annoyance, etc. 3. (Nautical Terms) (often plural) nautical a solid vertical fencelike structure along the outward sides of a deck.
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Barr Body (Molecular Biology) Barr Body (Molecular Biology) In eutherian (placental) mammals, dosage compensation mechanisms operate in female cells to silence one of the two X-chromosomes, so that female cells have as many X-chromosome-derived transcripts as male cells containing a single X-chromosome.