gnarl

English

A gnarled tree trunk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɑː(ɹ)l/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l

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Etymology 1

Back-formation from gnarled.

Noun

gnarl (plural gnarls)

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.

Derived terms

• gnarly

Translations

knot in wood

• Bulgarian: чеп (bg) m (čep), чвор (bg) m (čvor)
• Dutch: knoest (nl) m
• Finnish: pahka (fi)
• French: noeud (fr) m (du bois)
• Galician: nó (gl) m
• Greek: όζος (el) m (ózos), ρόζος (el) m (rózos)
• Italian: nodo (it) m (di albero)
• Ottoman Turkish: بوداق (budak)
• Polish: sęk (pl) m
• Russian: сучо́к (ru) m (sučók)
• Spanish: nudo (es)
• Thai: ตาไม้ (dtaa-máai)
• Turkish: budak (tr)

something resembling a knot in wood

• Finnish: pahkura (fi), kyhmy (fi)
• Spanish: nudo (es) m

math: average of the square of curl

Verb

gnarl (third-person singular simple present gnarls, present participle gnarling, simple past and past participle gnarled)

1. (transitive) To knot or twist something.

Translations

to knot or twist

• Finnish: väännellä (fi), murjoa (fi)
• Spanish: anudar (es), enredar (es)

Adjective

gnarl

1. Gnarled, knotty, twisted.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

gnarl (third-person singular simple present gnarls, present participle gnarling, simple past and past participle gnarled)

1. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.

Translations

to snarl

• Bulgarian: ръмжа (bg) (rǎmža)
• Czech: vrčet (cs) impf
• Finnish: murista (fi), äristä (fi)