barnacles

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{n} irons on horses' noses, spectacles
plural of barnacle
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On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard
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A nickname for spectacles
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In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design
barnacle
A good job, or snack easily obtained
gooseneck barnacles
plural form of gooseneck barnacle
barnacle
{n} a large bird like a goofe, a shellfish
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The barnacle goose
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A bernicle goose
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A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships
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Spectacles; so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers
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An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him
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(a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies)
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An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable
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See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle
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marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
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European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
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{i} marine crustacean which permanently fixes itself to rocks
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Barnacles are small shellfish that fix themselves tightly to rocks and the bottoms of boats. a small sea animal with a hard shell that sticks firmly to rocks and the bottom of boats (barnacle type of goose (12-21 centuries), from bernaca; from the former belief that the goose was born from a barnacle). Any of a majority of the 1,000 species of the subclass Cirripedia of marine crustaceans that, as adults, are covered with a shell made of hard calcium-containing plates and are permanently cemented, head down, to rocks, pilings, ships' hulls, driftwood, or seaweed or to the bodies of larger sea creatures, from clams to whales. Barnacles trap tiny particles of food with their cirri, feathery retractable organs that emerge from openings between the shell plates. Adult barnacles commonly are hermaphrodites
barnacle
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc
barnacles

    Turkish pronunciation

    bärnıkılz

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbärnəkəlz/ /ˈbɑːrnəkəlz/

    Etymology

    [ 'bär-ni-k&l ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English barnakille, alteration of bernake, bernekke.
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