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Barnacled   Listen
adjective
barnacled  adj.  
1.
Covered with barnacles. "The barnacled hull of a wrecked ship"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Barnacled" Quotes from Famous Books



... strange arrangement of her upper deck and top-hamper, more like a dwelling than any ship he had ever seen, was fully exposed to view, while the seamen seemed to be at work with the rudest contrivances, calking and scraping her barnacled sides. He saw that phantom crew, when not working, at wassail and festivity; heard the shouts of drunken roisterers; saw the placing of a guard around some of the most uncontrollable, and later detected the stealthy escape of half a dozen sailors inland, amidst the fruitless ...
— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... .. < chapter xxxii 6 CETOLOGY > Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harborless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod's weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which are to follow. It is some systematized ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville



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