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gnarled
Jan Kotch's Silent Witness is an expressive tree, its roots exposed and gnarled.
From the dispatch.com
Their dialogue, rural south Texas vernacular, is spare, gnarled and often funny.
From the online.wsj.com
Bush visited five days after the storm, when he walked through the gnarled mess.
From the newsobserver.com
The vineyards, with their ivy and gnarled grape plants, feel awfully fancy, too.
From the denverpost.com
Silvery lichen dripped from gnarled oaks, completing the lost-in-fairyland feel.
From the post-gazette.com
But in a certain context, the gnarled roots of an exposed stump can impress too.
From the economist.com
He pointed to a section of gnarled concrete in the busy street a few feet away.
From the latimes.com
It's a gnarled twist of dead and live wood that looks like an arm from the grave.
From the ocregister.com
Gnarled old cypress trees on the shores of Lake Disston come to life each spring.
From the news-journalonline.com
- Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
- (gnarl) 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"
- (gnarl) twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"
- (gnarl) murmur: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked"
- (GNARL) 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. ...
- (Gnarl (Alien Racers)) 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.
- Knotty and misshapen; made rough by age or hard work
- (gnarl) 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 ...
- (gnarl) n. extreme technical sections. Characterized by very rough, rooty, slippery, or rocky sections. Commonly found in the Pacific Northwest and New England. "He has got some great bike handling skills and can really scream through the gnarl."
