Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Archaic A knot or burl on a tree or in wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To growl. See
gnar . - noun A knot on a tree.
- noun A rock; a cliff.
- noun A short stout man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
gnar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
knot orburl in a tree; aknurl , agnarl .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English knarre, probably from Old English *cnear or from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German knorre.]
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Middle English knar (14th century, original sense “a stone”), from which also knurl (diminutive suffix) and later gnarl (variant). Before Middle English, origin is Unknown.
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The new tunes could be heralded as the best yet to come, with one surfer Beach Boys nod that read like a cowboy shredding the knar.
PegasusNews.com stories Michelle Parsons 2010
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