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A village in Shilton and Barnacle parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3884).
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name
A surname.
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noun
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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Broader terms: arthropod, crustacean
noun
The barnacle goose.
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noun
In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
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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Usage: slang
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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Synonyms: cruft
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noun
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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Usage: in-plural, obsolete
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Synonyms: twitch
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noun
A pair of spectacles.
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Usage: UK, archaic, in-plural, slang
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noun
A good job, or snack easily obtained.
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Usage: obsolete, slang
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noun
A worldly sailor.
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Usage: slang
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Synonyms: shellback
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verb
To connect with or attach.
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verb
To press close against something.
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noun
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis
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Broader terms: goose
noun
marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede
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Broader terms: crustacean
Narrower terms: acorn barnacle, rock barnacle, Balanus balanoides, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle, Lepas fascicularis
History
Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, most likely from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), probably from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), probably from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish bairneach), from Proto-Celtic *barannīkos, from *barinā (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gwr̥H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-ākos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek λέπας (lépas, “rock”) which gave λεπάς (lepás, “limpet”). First attestations referred to the goose, with corresponding folklore (q.v.).
Across languages
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