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  • English Word Barrack Definition 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.
  • English Word Barrack Definition A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
  • English Word Barrack Definition To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
  • English Word Barrack Definition To live or lodge in barracks.
  • English Word Barraclade Definition A home-made woolen blanket without nap.
  • English Word Barracoon Definition A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
  • English Word Barracouata Definition A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food.
  • English Word Barracouata Definition A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).
  • English Word Barracuda Definition Alt. of Barracouata
  • English Word Barrage Definition An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
  • English Word Barranca Definition A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.
  • English Word Barras Definition A resin, called also galipot.
  • English Word Barrator Definition One guilty of barratry.
  • English Word Barratrous Definition Tainter with, or constituting, barratry.
  • English Word Barratry Definition The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
  • English Word Barratry Definition A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
  • English Word Barratry Definition The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.
  • English Word Barred Definition of Bar
  • English Word Barred owl Definition A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.
  • English Word Barrel Definition A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
  • English Word Barrel Definition The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
  • English Word Barrel Definition A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
  • English Word Barrel Definition A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  • English Word Barrel Definition A jar.
  • English Word Barrel Definition The hollow basal part of a feather.
  • English Word Barrel Definition To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  • English Word Barreled Definition of Barrel
  • English Word Barreled Definition Alt. of Barrelled
  • English Word Barreling Definition of Barrel
  • English Word Barrelled Definition of Barrel