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Barrack

a hut or small lodge.

Formerly a temporary building of this character, one of many erected to shelter horsemen. Then it was extended to embrace any temporary erection for a soldier, to whatever arm of the service belonging. The plural, barracks, is now generally applied to a large structure, for the housing of troops. tal of a subdistrict in Bengal, on the E.

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