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| | Barnacles | Variants: Barnacles, Horse-Barnacles | An instrument used by Farriers, depicted either extended or closed, they are also termed Horse-Barnacles.
A kind of powerful bit or twitch for the mouth of horse or ass, used to restrain a restive animal. An instrument consisting of two branches joined by a hinge, placed on the nose of a horse, if he has to be coerced into quietness when being shoed or surgically operated upon. | | Elvin Plate Reference: p. 37 n. 56 |   |
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