The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BARNACLE
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More clues leading to the result BARNACLE
- Crustacean in pub clean when cooked
- Hanger-on, one locking up pound by farm building
- Good shot behind farm building bags large kind of goose
- On the coast it's hard to remove salt in mere
- Hanger-on in farm building, one left inside
- Farm building expert brings in large inconvenience to Hull
- One firmly sticks rod on clean ground
- Creature in farm building spinning lace
- Hanger-on may be stalked
- Hanger-on finding resistance in balance disturbed
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What does BARNACLE mean?
BARNACLE noun- A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- The barnacle goose.
- In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- 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.
- A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
- (in the plural) 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 the plural) A pair of spectacles.
- A good job, or snack easily obtained.
- A worldly sailor.
- To connect with or attach.
- To press close against something.