debarnacle
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debarnacle (third-person singular simple present debarnacles, present participle debarnacling, simple past and past participle debarnacled)
- (transitive) To remove the barnacles from.
- to debarnacle a ship's hull
- 1951, Fortnight: The Newsmagazine of California, page 27:
- Barnacle-loaded ships bypass dry-docking by sailing into the freshwater lake, which debarnacles them automatically.