Meaning

2 senses
  1. A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

    Knorren

    сучо́кsučók

  2. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

More definitions
  • something twisted and tight and swollen

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The tree had a gnarled bough.

    deDer Baum hatte einen knorrigen Ast. — Manfredo

  2. The raven perched atop the eerie, gnarled tree.

  3. The gnarled branches scraped and grasped for me like living hands.

    ruУзловатые ветви поскрипывали и тянулись ко мне, словно чьи-то руки, пытаясь ухватить. — Wezel

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
knot in wood:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
knot in wood:

Origin

Back-formation from gnarled.

Back-formation from gnarled.

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Forms

plural: gnarls
Singulargnarl
Pluralgnarls

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • something twisted and tight and swollen:knot

Word family

1 related words
Relatedgnarly

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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