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gnarled

[ nahrld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

gnarled

/ nɑːld /

Origin of gnarled¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; variant of knurled

I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

Hard-caught game gets something feral and gnarled—Côte-Rôtie or a leathery Hermitage.

What was distinct as the visitors turned away from the inscribed edges of the pools was the lone gnarled tree.

The knots were so plentiful that the thread stood up like a gnarled flagpole.

The young who are not gnarled and knocked around by the old fights are tired of the overtones of special pleading.

The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.

The Dark One threw down the mountains, gnarled the forests, and bent the rivers which his brother had made.

You can really trim an old apple tree into a thing of gnarled power and quaint charm by a little care.

They sat on the turf, with a gnarled old apple tree rustling above them.

She saw before her two bright-coloured hammocks fastened to the gnarled trunks of some orange-trees.

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