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

  • Thanks for letting a bunch of knarled old shooters participate in the naming of your fine dog.

    My Dog's Name Is... 2008

  • 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

  • He looks up at me, grasping his walker with knarled blue-printed hands and I nod.

    blog: January 2009 2009

  • He looks up at me, grasping his walker with knarled blue-printed hands and I nod.

    blog: The Secret to Life 2009

  • 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

  • "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

  • "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: Downtown East Side 2008

  • 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.

    Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina

  • 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

  • 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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