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Having crustaceans, as a ship's hull
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barnacled
Word definitions for barnacled in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Crusted with barnacles. 2 (context by analogy English) Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles. 3 Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring. 4 old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean. 5 (context ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
barnacled \barnacled\ adj. 1. covered with barnacles. the barnacled hull of a wrecked ship
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. covered with barnacles; "the barnacled hull of a wrecked ship"
Usage examples of barnacled.
They were still a quarter of a mile from the fishing boats, but it had come to greet them, it seemed, lifting its bright barnacled head out of the water.
Then I spotted the microcube barnacled to the computer: She had been recording.
In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs.
Years ago in that section of the beach had once stood a long wooden pier that time and tide had reduced to a broken row of ruined pilings, barnacled, algae-furred, jutting haphazardly above the swell like ancient menhirs in a rolling field.
He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.
Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comblike incrustation on the top of the mass--this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale.
Great piers of glistening rock rose around its banks, their bases barnacled with deposits of copper ore.
The souls within those faces still—all too eloquently—lived, while every vermiculous grotto of them had its demonic gardener: an obese, vermillion starfish shape, all scabbed and barnacled with eyes, and which inched the slathering mucosae of its undersides across the quasi-human meadow.