Living quarters for itinerant workers employed in cutting cane.
a cane barracks was no place to raise a young girl
Example sentencesExamples
- On the farm we used to go round selling eggs, pork and veal to the men in the cane barracks in the slack.
- It shows a scene from the cane barracks at dinner time.
- Attention is also given to the hygiene of the farms, especially in the region of the cane barracks and in or near the canefields.
- There were large gangs of men on railway construction sites and in cane barracks.
- They lived in an old cane barracks the other side of Aloomba.
- None of the loose ribaldry of the cane-barracks had ever affected him.
- I didn't stay long as I wanted to get to the cane barracks by dark
- She lived in the cane-barracks while the season lasted.
- We could see the corrugated iron huts of the cane barracks.
- He was shot and killed in his bed at the cane barracks at Stone River.