Gnarled

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gnarled \Gnarled\, a.
     Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.
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           The unwedgeable and gnarl['e]d oak.      --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gnarl \Gnarl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gnarled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Gnarling}.] [From older gnar, prob. of imitative origin; cf.
     G. knarren, knurren. D. knorren, Sw. knorra, Dan. knurre.]
     To growl; to snarl.
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           And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
                                                    --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gnarled
       adj : used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
             knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
             [syn: {gnarly}, {knotted}, {knotty}, {knobbed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "gnarled":
     arthritic, bent, bumpy, burled, contorted, crooked, distorted,
     gnarly, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty,
     knurled, knurly, lumpy, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodose, nodular,
     nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, studded, torose,
     tubercular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, twisted, warped