barricade n also barrack head. Cp OED ~ 3 naut ['strong rail across the foremost part of quarter-deck'] (1769, 1867). The short raised deck at the fore end of a vessel; forecastle; also attrib.
   [1894-1929] [1960] BURKE (ed White) 29 "Full Loads to the Sealers": Success to you sons of bold Neptune, / May good luck attend you this spring / When bound up for home and you loaded, / On the barricade gaily will sing. 1924 ENGLAND 38 Up on the 'barricade,' or fo'c's'le head, where groups of men stood hands in pockets ... I penetrated to the very forepeak. Ibid 47 When she struck the ice full tilt, water flew higher than the barricade rail. T 141/66-65² Charlie come in on the barrack 'ead. 'What a souse!' he said. 'I'm soakin'!' 1977 Nfld Qtly Winter, p. 17 There was no bowsprit on her. All you had to do was just lower it (the jib) down to beyond the barrack head (barricade).

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