gnarl
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /nɑː(r)l/
gnarl (plural gnarls)
- A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
- Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
- Spanish: nudo
gnarl (gnarls, present participle gnarling; past and past participle gnarled)
- (transitive) To knot or twist something.
- Spanish: anudar, enredar
gnarl
Verbgnarl (gnarls, present participle gnarling; past and past participle gnarled)
- (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:
- And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
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