English-Thai Dictionary

barnacle

N เพ รี ยง ที่ เกาะ ตาม วัตถุ ใต้ น้ำ  priang-ti-kor-tam-wad-tu-tai-nam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BARNACLE

n.[L. perna, a shell-fish. ] 1. A shell which is often found on the bottoms of ships, rocks and timber, below the surface of the sea.
2. A species of goose, found in the northern seas, but visiting more southern climates in winter. The forehead and cheeks are white, but the upper part of the body and neck is black. Formerly, a strange notion prevailed, that these birds grew out of wood, or rather out of the barnacles attached to wood in the sea. Hence the name. It is written also Bernacle.
3. In the plural, an instrument consisting of two branches jointed at one end with a hinge, to put upon a horse's nose, to confine him, for shoeing, bleeding, or dressing.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BARNACLE

Bar "na *cle, n. Etym: [Prob. from E. barnacle a kind of goose, which was popularly supposed to grow from this shellfish; but perh. from LL. bernacula for pernacula, dim. of perna ham, sea mussel; cf. Gr. ham Cf. F. bernacle, barnacle, E. barnacle a goose; and Ir. bairneach, barneach, limpet. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc. , esp. (a ) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies ), and (b ) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies ). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis ) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

 

BARNACLE

Bar "na *cle, n. Etym: [See Bernicle. ]

 

Defn: A bernicle goose.

 

BARNACLE

Bar "na *cle, n. Etym: [OE. bernak, bernacle; cf. OF. bernac, and Prov. F. (Berri ) berniques, spectacles. ]

 

1. pl. (Far. )

 

Defn: An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

 

Note: [Formerly used in the sing. ] The barnacles... give pain almost equal to that of the switch. Youatt.

 

2. pl.

 

Defn: Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng. ] Dickens.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

barnacle

bar na cle |ˈbärnəkəl ˈbɑrnəkəl | ▶noun a marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a variety of surfaces. Barnacles feed by filtering particles from the water using their modified feathery legs. [Class Cirripedia. See acorn barnacle, goose barnacle . ] • used figuratively to describe a tenacious person or thing: buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles. DERIVATIVES bar na cled adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin bernaca, of unknown origin. In Middle English the term denoted the barnacle goose, whose breeding grounds were long unknown and which was believed to hatch from the shell of the crustacean to which it gave its name.

 

barnacle goose

bar na cle goose |ˈbɑrnəkəl ɡus | ▶noun a goose with a white face and black neck, breeding in the arctic tundra of Greenland and northern Europe. [Branta leucopsis, family Anatidae. ] ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: see barnacle .

 

Oxford Dictionary

barnacle

barnacle |ˈbɑːnək (ə )l | ▶noun a marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the water using its modified feathery legs. ●Class Cirripedia. See acorn barnacle, goose barnacle . • used in similes to describe a tenacious person or thing: buses careered along with men hanging from their doors like barnacles. DERIVATIVES barnacled adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin bernaca, of unknown origin. In Middle English the term denoted the barnacle goose, whose breeding grounds were long unknown and which was believed to hatch from the shell of the crustacean to which it gave its name.

 

barnacle goose

bar |nacle goose ▶noun a goose with a white face and black neck, breeding in the arctic tundra of Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Novaya Zemlya. ●Branta leucopsis, family Anatidae. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: see barnacle .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

barnacle

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