knar

American  

[nahr] / nɑr /

noun

1. a knot on a tree or in wood.

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knar British  

/ nɑː /

noun

1. a variant of knur

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Other Word Forms

• knarred adjective
• knarry adjective

Etymology

Origin of knar

1200–50; Middle English knarre; cognate with Dutch knar, Low German knarre

Example Sentences

Although displaced, Misha and Knar resisted the obliterating effects of assimilation.

From The New Yorker

Back home, his father, Misha, had been a singer, and his mother, Knar, an actress.

From The New Yorker

Bouncing around Paris’s quartier latin, Misha became Michael, the owner of a Georgian restaurant, and Knar, a seamstress.

From The New Yorker

His parents, Mischa and Knar Aznavourian, were living in Paris at the time of their son’s birth, in a poor part of the Latin quarter, where his father worked as a cook and his mother as a seamstress.

From The Guardian

Jordan Giles and Robert Knar added nine points each.

From Washington Times