Definitions
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- adjective covered with barnacles.
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- adjective Crusted with
barnacles . - adjective by analogy Thickly covered in something, as if with
barnacles . - adjective Familiar with the ocean and/or
seafaring . - adjective
Old andweathered , particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean. - adjective figuratively Marked by personal experiences;
worldly . - adjective figuratively
Encumbered with somethingunnecessary orundesirable , especially through a slow,gradual process ofaccumulation . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
barnacle .
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Examples
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Then, and for the first time, as I floundered to my feet covered with slime, the blood running down my arms from a scrape against a barnacled stake, I knew that I was drunk.
Chapter 6 2010
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In large part, this is because Athos is a place where myths, and versions of myth, have superimposed themselves to form a virtually impenetrable conglomerate; where erudite references and cartographic measurements are barnacled—unprizably—onto what, originally, may have been little more than local hearsay.
A Fossil With Flesh Nicholas Shakespeare 2011
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I clung to the barnacled wood, my fingers slicing open on shellfish and crustaceans.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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I clung to the barnacled wood, my fingers slicing open on shellfish and crustaceans.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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As we watched the barnacled creatures emerge for air like elephantine sloths, we began to suspect Captain Jim was full of it and weren't surprised when the famous couple was a no-show.
The Last Swim Marcelle Heath 2011
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Having said that, there was action to be had albeit in a clip Doug had prepared a decade earlier with killer whales – 10 tonnes of muscle and teeth circling a poor flat-footed barnacled grey whale and her fattened calf.
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The man looked up, when a small cross-wave hit him, bounced him off the barnacled concrete.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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In a review of the de Young's 2008 Dale Chihuly glass exhibit, San Francisco Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker wrote that he got a "queasy sense that here the gift shop inevitably barnacled to such exhibitions has finally engulfed its host."
Museum Invests in Crowd-Pleasers Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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The man looked up, when a small cross-wave hit him, bounced him off the barnacled concrete.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The man looked up, when a small cross-wave hit him, bounced him off the barnacled concrete.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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