Gnarl (Noun)
Meaning
Something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots".
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The gnarl on the old tree's branch had been growing for decades, a twisted and tangled mass of wood.
- After the injury, a large gnarl formed on the athlete's knee, causing her considerable pain and discomfort.
- The carpenter carefully cut around the gnarl in the plank, trying not to damage the surrounding wood.
- The arthritic woman's hands were a mass of gnarls, her fingers twisted and swollen with age and disease.
- The rock climber struggled to get past the gnarl of roots that had grown across the mountain path.