gnarl

Examples

• All

• The Baby of the Family is now crawling through a forest; the legs of the dining room table are ribbed like barked trunks, and the rungs of the chairs trip and gnarl like roots.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The bull-horned dog gnarls at my specter.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "Where have you been?" She glared up at him, a gnarl of fury in her eye, "I tried to find you, Caidy!"

  Fiction book (1993)

• Around them, there existed a gnarl of twisty vines and trees, leafy, swollen vegetation, and mountains rising another ten thousand feet, though they could not see beyond their own weary group because of the rain's steady downpour.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The hand is lumpy, and there are knots and gnarls on its back—badly aimed injections, and abscesses healed thirty years ago.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The old wooden table was full of gnarls and bumps, making it unique and interesting.

• The sculpture features a beautiful gnarl that showcases the artist's attention to natural forms.

• As she examined the tree, she noticed a gnarl that twisted dramatically at the base of the trunk.

Synonyms

K

knot

vsgnarl

62 3.0

A hard lump in wood, muscle, or yarn

is about twisted or swollen irregular shapes rather than simple hard lumps

K

knob

vsgnarl

7 2.3

A small rounded lump on something like a tree branch or bone

is more irregular and often twisted rather than smoothly rounded

G

gnar

vsgnarl

• Archaic

9.9

A hard lump that grows on a tree trunk or branch after damage

is broader describing twisted or swollen parts in wood or body shapes

How Twisted

gnarl

1 9.3

knot

62 3.0

burl

• Specialized

9.5

protuberance

2 8.6

bump

118 2.5

Surface Forms

Etymology