A barnacle is a ship, and a splinter is a “bandwagon.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [On that Dove Ad Campaign and Unruly Fat] Reference

The cypris stage of a barnacle is a bivalve with the creature between the two shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I was born back from tidewater and don't know as the barnacle does stick to the oyster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands (version 1)] Reference

One kind of barnacle is shaped rather like an acorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference

Discoveries included a new anemone, the sea squirt and a new kind of barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

As a famously obdurate presence at the crease, Bailey was affectionately nicknamed 'barnacle'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"barnacle" customers-i. e. the ones that try to keep companies to their word and make them deliver on their promises.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

Mad Dog Rackham in reply to a comment from barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Adviser: Emergency Room Just as Good as Health Insurance] Reference

An EA spokesman called the tactic "barnacle marketing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeking Fame in Apple's Sea of Apps] Reference

"That is pathos," Magritte says, pointing to a barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magritte] Reference

He is a sort of barnacle, taken in on his wife's account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41] Reference

Lovely except for the barnacle coming in contact with my leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [cacatherine Diary Entry] Reference

I heard two funny bits this morning on morning joe from barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Penn: Internal Polls Show "Red Phone" Ad Swaying "Millions" Of Voters] Reference

"You're losing no more blood, but you do feel cold as a barnacle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veiled Dragon]

Each of these programs has a political barnacle connected with it.    From Wordnik.com.  ['It’s just a question of using the same dollars wisely'] Reference

I was not at that time aware of the barnacle-like qualities of Gladys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference

The laces had been securely entwined around a barnacle-encrusted root.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoot]

Highlanders still believe in the barnacle origin of this species of fowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850] Reference

We of the Navy are obsolete, and our hulls are encrusted with the Harwich barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference

The three populations of barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) can be used as an example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference

That's something that people -- I'm sorry, I'll rephrase that, of aging, a barnacle of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2001] Reference

She had locked her hands around my neck and I pried at them, but she clung like a barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [DearlyDevotedDexter]

"I'm an American, and was proud of it, till I found you were one, you cursed yankee barnacle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

There was a teeny tiny snail shell stuck to its underside, like a barnacle on the bow of a boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [weeme Diary Entry] Reference

"What are you doing there, you old barnacle?" inquired the Captain as he came back to the fence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

Hanging tight to his boss's coattails, Kerik was so far in over his head he was a human barnacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Collins: Bye Bye Bernie] Reference

It is indeed unfortunate that Matthews has attached himself to this poll like a barnacle to a hull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Baer: What's With Chris Matthews Flacking Obama?] Reference

It suffices to say of this minority that they are a barnacle on the hull of an otherwise staunch vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

"My guess is that we could sit here for six years and nothing would come of such a barnacle-brained scheme.".    From Wordnik.com.  [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference

And in our present world, that nasty burnt barnacle cheese is made from a whole lotta ingredients, including.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Melted My Cheese?] Reference

He gives an imaginative illustration of the barnacle fowl escaping from its shell, which is reproduced in fig. 12.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bygone Beliefs] Reference

Ripple-worn sand, shells, barnacle-covered rocks, slowly came within the pale of the radiance and Moses moved with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

The famous "barnacle-geese" ought not to be omitted from any sketch of the vicissitudes of this doctrine of Biogenesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference

'They'll last ten days,' he said, as we followed the throng, still clinging like a barnacle to the side of the Johannes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riddle of the Sands]

You'll need to know them sooner than you think, because soon we are all going to be scraping at that barnacle like cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Melted My Cheese?] Reference

Case in point this week is the F-22, a gold-plated Cold War barnacle that has been stuck to American taxpayers for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorelei Kelly: Congress, the F-22 and the Monkey on Our Back] Reference

To make love to a young woman and to induce her to marry you with a barnacle of this sort hanging round her suggests difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [April's Lady A Novel] Reference

When we think of a thorough-going conservative we are likely to picture him as a stay-at-home person, a barnacle fastened to one spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference