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barnacled

barnacled

English

Adjective

barnacled (comparative more barnacled, superlative most barnacled)

  1. Crusted with barnacles.
  2. (by analogy) Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
  3. Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring.
  4. Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean.
  5. (figuratively) Marked by personal experiences; worldly.
  6. (figuratively) Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation.

Verb

barnacled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of barnacle