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Gnarl   /nɑrl/   Listen
Gnarl

noun
1.
Something twisted and tight and swollen.  Synonym: knot.  "The old man's fists were two great gnarls" , "His stomach was in knots"



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"Gnarl" Quotes from Famous Books



... master! what a sight is there! Ah! without escort, journey we alone, Which, if thou know the way, I covet not. Unless thy prudence fail thee, dost not mark How they do gnarl upon us, and their scowl Threatens us present tortures?" He replied: "I charge thee fear not: let them, as they will, Gnarl on: 't is but in token of their spite Against the souls, who mourn in ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri

... strayed it could not be very far away. He remounted his pony and loped down the gully, reaching the ridge presently and riding along this, searching the surrounding country with keen glances. He could see no signs of the calf. He came to a shelf-rock presently, beside which grew a tangled gnarl of scrub-oak brush. Something lay in the soft sand and he dismounted quickly and picked up a leather tobacco pouch. He examined this carefully. There were no marks on it to tell who might be ...
— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer



Words linked to "Gnarl" :   kvetch, distorted shape, bend, turn, sound off, deform, flex, complain, distortion, twist, quetch, plain, kick, mutter



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