Sentence:  A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its <WSD>pedicle</WSD> to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: ""Barnacles", termed "soland geese" In th' islands of the Orcades." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.