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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | knot |
| Type of | distorted shape, distortion |
| Derivation | gnarly |
the old man's fists were two great gnarls.
Examples of gnarl
gnarl
He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind.
From the time.com
It has a book that twists on itself so it winds up in a hopeless gnarl.
From the lohud.com
Removable panels over the wheels reveal a gnarl of springs and heavy-duty shocks tucked behind huge 35-inch tires.
From the businessweek.com
A low gnarl seems to echo across the valley.
From the guardian.co.uk
And they're only a few years old, without the bulk and gnarl of the dark stumps for which the valley is celebrated.
From the sacbee.com
Sometimes, the gnarl here is superlative.
From the guardian.co.uk
Roots and trunks begin to warp, gnarl and shrink.
From the time.com
Evans, meanwhile, is starting to gnarl his teeth as the Aussie starts to sense that his best ever chance of a grand tour victory is slipping away from him.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Cabin pressure, low humidity and reduced oxygen levels can gnarl our senses and passengers'sense of taste can be reduced by up to 30% at altitude.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
- Knot: 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"
- Twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"
- Murmur: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked"
- (gnarled) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
- GNAT is a free-software compiler for the Ada programming language which forms part of the GNU Compiler Collection. It supports all versions of the language, i.e. Ada 2005, Ada 95 and Ada 83; it allows already some constructs of Ada 2012 (i.e. pre/postconditions or conditional expressions). ...
- Alien Racers is an animated television show about racing and is aimed for kids ages 7 and above. It originally aired on Fox's FoxBox (now 4Kids TV) in 2005. It currently airs in Canada on Teletoon.
- Gnarls Barkley is an American musical group collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) from New York, and rapper/vocalist Cee Lo Green (Thomas Callaway), from Atlanta. Their first album, St. ...
- 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; 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 ...
- (gnarled) knotty and misshapen; made rough by age or hard work
