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noun
- 1. a rough, knotty protuberance, especially on a tree: "a blackthorn topped with a two-humped gnarl"
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a rough or twisted lump on a tree or piece of wood: The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak. Fewer examples. He brings out the character of each wooden piece by making features of the gnarls and knots.
noun. : a hard protuberance with twisted grain on a tree. Examples of gnarl in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web. Verb. Olive trees, gnarled and bent, which have lived here for more than a thousand years, still produce olive cultivars like Coratina, Peranzana and Ogliarola.
A gnarl is something twisted up like a knot. When you gnarl something, you twist and mangle it. If you have long hair that's gnarled, it's become knotted and clumped up.
1. a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot. v.t. 2. to twist into a knotted or distorted form.
1. any knotty protuberance or swelling on a tree. verb. 2. (transitive) to knot or cause to knot. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C19: back formation from gnarled, probably variant of knurled; see knurl. gnarl in British English. (nɑːl ) or gnar (nɑː ) verb. (intransitive) obsolete. to growl or snarl.
a rough or twisted lump on a tree or piece of wood: The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak. Fewer examples. He brings out the character of each wooden piece by making features of the gnarls and knots.
Gnarl definition: a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.. See examples of GNARL used in a sentence.
Sep 27, 2024 · gnarl (plural gnarls) A knot in wood ; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
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noun. gnarls. A knot on the trunk or branch of a tree. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. (mathematics) The average value of the magnitude squared of the curl of a vector field over a continuous path that is tangent to the vector field at every point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter ξ. Wiktionary.
