English

Adjective

gnarled ‎(comparative more gnarled, superlative most gnarled)

1. Knotty and misshapen.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:

     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.

2. Made rough by age or hard work.

Synonyms

• gnarly

Derived terms

• gnarl

Translations

Verb

gnarled

1. simple past tense and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1)

Etymology 2

See gnarl (Etymology 2).

Verb

gnarled

1. simple past tense and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2)

References

1. ↑ “gnarled” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
2. 1 2 OED
3. ↑ Barnhart

Anagrams

• dangler