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Definition of barrack square in English: barrack squarenoun British A drill ground near a barracks. Example sentencesExamples - We still had to march round the barrack squares and we had to be dressed correctly, with nothing dirty or out of order.
- The studs, heel-plates and toe-plates, of the ox-blood red boots, designed to knock sparks out of the barrack square spent much time in the more comfortable environment of fields of Kerr's Pinks.
- I stood with some others on the top barrack square and watched the northern sky alight with flames, and later found that it was Coventry burning.
- They learned to put a penny in the magazine of their Lee-Enfield rifles so that the crash of rifle drill echoed across the windblown barrack squares.
- Superb landscaping of the old barrack squares, including a fine fountain, creates the impression of living in a palace, and maintenance is funded through a service charge.
- A hundred barrack squares filled with excited men and a hundred sergeant-majors hurried silently through the groups and succeeded in looking as if they were the repositories of the secrets of empire.
- With the hospital overflowing the barrack square was used as an emergency ward and at one time there were four miles of beds in rows on the square.
- Chatham Barracks was centred around the barrack square.
- He was, once again, suspended, with Anis, from the pillar in the barrack square.
- Driving past all those compounds and cavalry lines and barrack squares in Pakistan, one can only be shocked by the profound social division they represent.
- At 6: 00 A.M. a drummer began to beat reveille in the fusiliers’ lines, echoing around the barrack squares so as to wake even Hervey in the next-door quarters.
- The redcoats swung out of the barrack square and marched towards Government House.
- They had to drill for hours on shadeless barrack squares in hot weather.
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