In severe winters, flocks of solan geese, locally denominated "barnacles," frequent the shores. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829] Reference
To control the fouling of the spat by other organisms, such as barnacles, colonial ascidinas, and encrusting algae, the oysters must be. From Wordnik.com. [28. Non-toxic aquarium fish-catching] Reference
Or it may have something to do with dislodging the thousands of parasites, such as barnacles, that accrue to the animals 'bellies, chins, and flippers. From Wordnik.com. [Would a whale deliberately destroy a yacht?] Reference
Oil can kill small organisims, such as barnacles, while degrading seagrasses. From Wordnik.com. [The Shad Plank] Reference
Typically, slow moving animals are host to organisms such as barnacles and algae while fast moving animals are generally clean. From Wordnik.com. [Medgadget] Reference
“For scraping the barnacles off our love,” I said. From Wordnik.com. [Back in the Shower] Reference
A ship capsizing, the slow roll, barnacles like cancer. From Wordnik.com. [An Admirer Visits Paul Bowles] Reference
Originally, the name was given to the stalked barnacles. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Oh, the barnacles that cling to your keel in such waters!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
It has no use for barnacles and is always scraping them off. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
She's the rock of our marriage, and I'm the waves and barnacles. From Wordnik.com. [Babbling] Reference
And a sniffy young Wiscount in barnacles landed wot 'e thought a' it. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
The boulders were encrusted with great, grey, open-mouthed barnacles. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Our boat is so coated with barnacles that her speed is reduced from 18 to 12 knots. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
For a systematic account of the barnacles and their allies, see the article THYROSTRACA. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
They are as barnacles on a fast-moving ship, flies in the ointment of circus management. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
Somehow the barnacles eat their way through the paint and attach themselves to the hull. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Then you find 'em covered with barnacles, their claws cracked into squares, all wrinkled up. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The yachts frequently sail up there so that the barnacles will be killed by the fresh water. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Like barnacles on a ship, too many vested interests will glom onto it and fight to protect it. From Wordnik.com. [Fact And Comment] Reference
Why, bless you, my skin come out all boils as thick as barnacles on a hull arter a six months 'voyage, all. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
The barnacles interfere greatly with the speed of a vessel, and in a cruiser speed is of prime importance. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
It is destructive not only to oysters but to clams, mussels, barnacles, snails, worms, and small crustacea as well. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
All kinds of ideological barnacles became attached to the theory to the extent that the actual biology was obscured in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Denis Alexander: How Evolution Gets Used and Abused in the Science-Religion Debate] Reference
The result proved my surmise correct, for such a lot of self-sufficient barnacles no institution in the world was ever burdened with. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Unless some paint can be found which is proof against barnacles, it may be necessary to sheath steel vessels with an alloy of copper. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
He declared that they were so foul with weeds and barnacles that, as a prelude to any further operations, they must be beached and cleaned. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
But I learned later that it was not an uncommon thing for an old whale to use a ship's keel to rub himself against -- it scrapes off the barnacles!. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
She'd write long letters filled with details on the gestation times and feeding habits of humpbacks and the species of barnacles found on their flippers. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Edna's Lace] Reference
He started a series of notebooks in which he began refining his theory, recording the results of his research in fields as disparate as animal husbandry and barnacles. From Wordnik.com. [Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?] Reference
There was a 10-minute pause as she laid her eggs, then, the moonlight illuminating the barnacles on her shell, she heaved her way back to the sea and slithered out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Oman's desert island] Reference
With each episode, Mirren's characterization acquires new barnacles of experience: Tennison's confidence, her weariness, her passionate professionalism ripen from show to show. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRIME OF HELEN MIRREN] Reference
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