gnarl
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /nɑː(r)l/
Noun

gnarl (plural gnarls)

  1. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
  2. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
Translations
  • French: noeud (du bois)
  • Italian: nodo (di albero)
  • Russian: сучо́к
  • Spanish: nudo
Translations Verb

gnarl (gnarls, present participle gnarling; past and past participle gnarled)

  1. (transitive) To knot or twist something.
Translations Adjective

gnarl

  1. Gnarled, knotty, twisted.
Verb

gnarl (gnarls, present participle gnarling; past and past participle gnarled)

  1. (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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