barnacle-moulded

Updated: April 30, 2025

One or two crabbers, standing on the bow of their little skiffs and poling them along the edge of the water by the handles of their nets, had stopped to watch the job, which was being done with rusty nails and a bit of barnacle-moulded iron from a wreck instead of a hammer.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877