Gnarl

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  • intransitive verb. To snarl; growl.
  • noun. A protruding knot on a tree.
  • transitive verb. To make knotted; twist.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A knot; a knotty growth in wood; a rough irregular protuberance on a tree.
  • To give a rough ridging or milling to, as to the edge of a thumbscrew.
  • Same as gnar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
  • intransitive verb. To growl; to snarl.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To snarl or growl; to gnar.
  • noun. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
  • noun. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
  • noun. 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 point. In mathematical notation, gnarl is represented by the lowercase Greek letter ΞΎ.
  • verb. To knot or twist something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
  • noun. something twisted and tight and swollen
  • verb. twist into a state of deformity
  • Word Usage
    "The wiggy 60s gnarl emanating from the speakers does not sound incomplete, however."
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    gnarled  gnarling  gnarly  
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
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    Carl  Karl  carl  ensnarl  harl  
    Same Context
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    verb-form
    gnarled  gnarling  gnarls  gnars