1. a large building or group of buildings used to house soldiers; a barracks.
Usage: archaic or historical; chiefly British

1. to lodge or quarter soldiers in a casern or barracks.
Usage: archaic or historical; transitive

Examples

• The soldiers were housed in the old casern on the edge of town.
• The regiment was caserned near the border for the winter.
• The casern provided shelter for hundreds of troops during the campaign.
• Officers decided to casern the new recruits at the fort.