gnarled

1. Knotty and misshapen.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

2. Made rough by age or hard work.

• gnarly

• French: noueux, ratatiné
• Italian: bitorzoluto

• French: noueux

1. Simple past tense and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1)

1. Simple past tense and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2)