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gnarled  audio  (närld) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Having gnarls; knotty or misshapen: gnarled branches.
  2. Morose or peevish; crabbed.
  3. Rugged and roughened, as from old age or work: the gnarled hands of a carpenter.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably variant of knarled, from knarl, tangle, knot, alteration of Middle English knarre, knot in wood ; see knar


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