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GNARLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Example:
a knobbed stick
Synonyms:
gnarled; gnarly; knobbed; knotted; knotty
Classified under:
Similar:
crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb gnarl
Context examples:
He clasped his hands behind his head, threw them aloft, and swung them backwards, and at every movement some fresh expanse of his smooth, white skin became knobbed and gnarled with muscles, whilst a yell of admiration and delight from the crowd greeted each fresh exhibition.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Through this wild country it was that Sir Nigel and his Company pushed their way, riding at times through vast defiles where the brown, gnarled cliffs shot up on either side of them, and the sky was but a long winding blue slit between the clustering lines of box which fringed the lips of the precipices; or, again leading their horses along the narrow and rocky paths worn by the muleteers upon the edges of the chasm, where under their very elbows they could see the white streak which marked the gave which foamed a thousand feet below them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
