Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gnarled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gnarled \Gnarled\, a.
Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.
The unwedgeable and gnarl['e]d oak. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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