Crossword clues for gnarl
gnarl
- Bend out of shape
- Twist into a knotted form
- Angry dog's sound
- Knot on a tree trunk
- Knotty tree protuberance
- Tree protuberance
- Make all twisty
- Tree trunk knot
- Trunk protuberance
- Protruding knot on a tree
- Knotty protuberance
- Deform by twisting
- Twisty tree bump
- Twisted knot
- Twist into knots
- Twist into grotesque knots
- Knot on a trunk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gnarl \Gnarl\, n. [See Gnar, n.] a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
Gnarl \Gnarl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gnarled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gnarling.] [From older gnar, prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knarren, knurren. D. knorren, Sw. knorra, Dan. knurre.] To growl; to snarl.
And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"contort, twist," 1814, a back-formation from gnarled. As a noun from 1824. Earlier the verb was used in a sense of "to snarl" (1590s).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree. 2 Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs. 3 (context mathematics English) 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 '''ΞΎ'''. vb. (context transitive English) To knot or twist something. Etymology 2
vb. (context intransitive English) To snarl or growl; to gnar.
WordNet
n. something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" [syn: knot]
v. twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"
make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: murmur, mutter, grumble, croak]
Wikipedia
Gnarl may refer to:
- GNARL or Gnu Ada Runtime Library, a library for the Ada programming language
- Gnarl (Alien Racers), a character in the 2005 animated program Alien Racers
- Gnarl, a character in the 2007 video game Overlord
- Gnarl!, a 2000 short story collection by Rudy Rucker
- The inverse function of curl (mathematics)
Usage examples of "gnarl".
Through the gnarled limbs Aganippe saw two great rounded folds of earth, with a dark cleft between them, topped by a tuft of trees and brush.
The forest was dominated by plants that could extract moisture from the air: Lichen coated the gnarled bark of the araucaria trees, and even the low magnolia shrubs dripped with moss.
In the past six months Berel has been gaining back some of his old gnarled strength.
Mrs Ellis stroked it with her gnarled hands, and Cec found himself close to tears.
Its head darted forward, golden eyes ablaze, and the black and gnarled branches of its feeder arms, the four small arms growing from the sides of its head, reached out to grab him and drag him toward those teeth.
Bryndel accepted the gnarled old hand, discovering that the gaffer was surprisingly strong despite his obvious age.
My eyes chanced to light upon the enormous gnarled trunk of the gingko tree which cast its huge branches over us.
Would he be a reclusive, gnarled bachelor, eccentric, shrunken, invalidish, tended only by his bored Armsmen?
Its sides rose vastly, and from halfway up were gnarls of carapace-matter coaxed over generations into overhangs and towers, the walls of a keratin village.
The tree, below the hill, halfway to the intersection, was a gnarled old kiawe tree filling up its little field, where on his trips up here he had gone before to sit, and where the brown bottles of his past trips lay in the grass.
Laying a gnarled finger alongside his bent nose, he slipped the other knobbly hand beneath his coat, where he kept his knives.
He had stridden over them for hours and had found delectable things--a new lochan with trout rising among yellow water-lilies, a glen full of alders and singing waters, a hollow with old gnarled firs in it and the ruins of a cottage pink with foxgloves.
He watched Orval drag on the last of his cigarette close to his fingers, their joints gnarled and yellow from nicotine.
Once that purchase was complete, he began gathering up other vegetables, ripe pears, a gnarled wedge of pecorino, and a crusty loaf of pane toscano.
Crickets chirped in the old, gnarled pohutukawa tree as he strode past and headed up the narrow footpath to let himself in the kitchen door.