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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A bump or knot, as on a tree trunk; a gnarl.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A knot: same as knar. See knurl.
  • noun In the game of hockey, same as nur.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A knurl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun knurl

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English knor.]

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  • A knob or bump on a tree; a knot in wood.

    March 14, 2007