Definitions for gnarled

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Spelling: [nahrld]
IPA: /nɑrld/

Gnarled is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in gnarled (adeglnr).

Definitions for gnarled

noun

  1. a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.

adjective

  1. (of trees) full of or covered with gnarls; bent; twisted.
  2. having a rugged, weather-beaten appearance:
  3. crabby; cantankerous.

verb (used with object)

  1. to twist into a knotted or distorted form.

verb (used without object)

  1. to growl; snarl.

Origin of gnarled

First recorded in 1595-1605; variant of knurled

Examples for gnarled

gnarled cedars, hanging precariously, might hide pixies and elves.

She got up out of the hay, and put out a gnarled brown hand for it.

Even from the path he saw extending from the heap an arm, a gnarled hand.

So that the more knotted and gnarled a log of mahogany is, the better.

He placed the gnarled thing in sunlight and crouched to survey it.

I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

He had limbs of great length, and muscles like the gnarled heads of a beech.

The knots were so plentiful that the thread stood up like a gnarled flagpole.

The young who are not gnarled and knocked around by the old fights are tired of the overtones of special pleading.

Hard-caught game gets something feral and gnarled—Côte-Rôtie or a leathery Hermitage.

Word Value for gnarled
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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