1. barnacle - Noun
2. barnacle - Verb
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
A bernicle goose.
An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
Source: Webster's dictionary"Der Fleischverzicht im Christentum," Saeculum 50/II (1999) p. 202. (The medieval definition of "fish" included such animals as seals, porpoises, dolphins, barnacle geese, puffins, and beavers.) Mortimer, Ian. Source: Internet
One merges into another, groups melt into ecological groups until the time when what we know as life meets and enters what we think of as non-life: barnacle and rock, rock and earth, earth and tree, tree and rain and air. Source: Internet
Tim brings an abundance of musical talent and experience from playing with the Rum Runners, County Line, the Soothsayers Jug Band, Barnacle Billy and the Zebra Mussels, among many more accomplished bands. Source: Internet
The highlights included The Commodore, Lorenzo Von Matterhorn, Arnie Linson, The Barnacle, and Barnabus Stinson. Source: Internet
Such a skeleton type used by animals that live in water are more for protection (such as barnacle and snail shells) or for fast-moving animals that require additional support of musculature needed for swimming through water. Source: Internet
The book is set on June 16, 1904, the day Joyce first met Barnacle outside the hotel where she was a chambermaid. Source: Internet