| 单词 |
casern |
| 释义 |
casern, -e Mil.|kəˈzɜːn| Also cazern. [a. F. caserne, ad. Sp. (and Pg.) caserna, f. casa house: Littré compares cava caverna.] One of a series of small (temporary) buildings between the ramparts and houses of a fortified town for the accommodation of troops; also a barrack.
1696Phillips Cazerus. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3913/2 They set fire to their Caserns. 1716Prot. Mercury 3 Aug. 3 To build Cazernes or Barracks in Hide Park. 1858Beveridge Hist. India I. iii. xi. 638 All the tents and temporary caserns were blown to pieces. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) IV. xiii. 314 The fronting walls of the cazern..were in some places destroyed. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Casernes..correctly small lodgments erected between the ramparts and houses of a fortified town, to ease the inhabitants by quartering soldiers there. |

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