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knarled

knarled is the alternative form of gnarled.

Meaning of gnarled

Adjective

gnarled (comparative more gnarled, superlative most gnarled)

  1. Knotty and misshapen.
    • 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.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy)...
  2. Made rough by age or hard work.

Forms of knarled

comparativemore knarled
superlativemost knarled

Questions about knarled

What is knarled the alternative form of?
Knarled is the alternative form of gnarled.

Words near knarled in the dictionary

  1. knare
  2. knares
  3. Knaresborough
  4. Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh
  5. knarl
  6. knarled
  7. knarls
  8. knarly
  9. knarr
  10. knarred
  11. knarrs

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