Meaning of Barnacle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
2. A village in Shilton and Barnacle parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3884).
3. The barnacle goose.
4. A surname.
5. In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
   slang
6. 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.
   slang
7. A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
   slang
8. 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.
   in-plural, obsolete
9. A pair of spectacles.
   British, archaic, in-plural, slang
10. A good job, or snack easily obtained.
    obsolete, slang
11. A worldly sailor.
    slang

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