Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
gnarled .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Knotted. See
gnarled .
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- adjective Alternative form of
gnarled .
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Examples
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Thanks for letting a bunch of knarled old shooters participate in the naming of your fine dog.
My Dog's Name Is... 2008
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So look out for these signs, leaning like an old village codger pointing out the way with a knarled stick.
Pointing to The Past Peter Ashley 2008
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He looks up at me, grasping his walker with knarled blue-printed hands and I nod.
blog: January 2009 2009
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He looks up at me, grasping his walker with knarled blue-printed hands and I nod.
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Why don't you take your knarled lefty grudges somewhere more fitting, like the pages of the Guardian.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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"Why is that man lying down on the sidewalk?" my three-year old asks, honing in on a young man with a long knarled beard and ripped jacket cuffs,"He got no job?"
blog: November 2008 2008
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"Why is that man lying down on the sidewalk?" my three-year old asks, honing in on a young man with a long knarled beard and ripped jacket cuffs,"He got no job?"
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Through golden thickets of wild mustard they passed, coming, when he least expected it, upon glimpses of the summer sea framed between the branches of knarled old oak trees.
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Then again we were in the argan forest -- the last of it, and the best: beautiful trees, with their knarled, twisted branches.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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From its long recubation, it had become divested of its bark, foliage, and smaller branches; leaving only its knarled trunk and concomitant adjuncts, its crural like limbs.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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