- Floating timber - Timber washed ashore - Washed-up tree doctor, if two overdose - Wave-beached wood - Wood washed ashore - Wood drifted or floated by water. - Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
- Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated
barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf
weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.
- One found in sticky situation on boat? - Rock-clinging crustacean - Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating
timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and
allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and
allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. - A bernicle goose. - An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus
restraining him. - Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the
barnacles used by farriers.