bernicle

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English

Noun

bernicle (plural bernicles)

  1. A barnacle goose.
  2. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bernicle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Noun

bernicle f (plural bernicles)

  1. Synonym of bernache
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