barnacle
To connect with or attachTo connect with or attach.
» They scraped barnacles off the hull of the ship.
Sie kratzten die Rankenfüßer vom Schiffsrumpf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Они счистили ракушки с корпуса судна. — Karok
Hybrid · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 sensesTo connect with or attach.
To press close against something.
Examples
4 sentencesThey scraped barnacles off the hull of the ship.
ruОни счистили ракушки с корпуса судна. — Karok
deSie kratzten die Rankenfüßer vom Schiffsrumpf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom scraped the barnacles off the hull of the ship.
deTom kratzte die Seepocken vom Schiffsrumpf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Gooseneck barnacles sweep the water with their feathery legs to catch plankton.
The barnacle is a marine organism that attaches itself to solid objects.
Origin
Uncertain, with long-debated origin. From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake,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”).
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Forms
barnacles, barnacling, barnacled, barnacledWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.