A municipality of Bahia, Brazil

The act of persistently instigating lawsuits, often groundless ones. / The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.

A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine.

(military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

(transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter. / (intransitive) To live in barracks.

(Britain, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means. / (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.

A temporary cage for holding slaves, indentured servants or prisoners in the Louisiana Territory and French colonial Africa.

An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.

(transitive) To direct a barrage at.

(historical, military) A tethered balloon, attached to the ground with a metal cable, intended to deter low-flying enemy aircraft; used especially in World War II.