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barricks

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A variant spelling of barracks—military housing for enlisted soldiers; in poetry, it evokes regimentation, communal living, and the stark, functional spaces of army life.

Detailed Definition
Barricks is a dialect or phonetic spelling of barracks, the buildings where soldiers live. Kipling uses the spoken form to match the poem’s voice and working-class speech.
Example
Example in poetry:
Kipling’s “Barrack-Room Ballads” uses “barricks” as a soldier’s dialect spelling for barracks; “Single men in barricks” gives the speaker a colloquial military voice; “The barricks woke before dawn” can emphasize regimented communal life; A modern antiwar poem might contrast “barricks’ neat bunks” with the disorder of memory
Additional Notes
This spelling is unusual, and the military housing term may not be immediately recognized in the poem’s dialect form.; Found in the poem, Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
Also Known As
barracks quarters lodgings
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