What does gnarl mean?
Definitions for gnarl
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Princeton's WordNet
knot, gnarlverb
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"
gnarlverb
twist into a state of deformity
"The wind has gnarled this old tree"
murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarlverb
make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
"she grumbles when she feels overworked"
Wiktionary
gnarlnoun
a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
gnarlnoun
something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
gnarlnoun
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 u03BE.
gnarlverb
to knot or twist something
gnarlverb
to snarl or growl; to gnar
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Gnar, To Gnarlverb
To growl; to murmur; to snarl.
Etymology: gnyrran, Saxon; knorren, Dutch.
When he ’gan to rear his bristles strong,
And felly gnar, until day’s enemy
Did him appease. Fairy Queen, b. i. cant. 1.Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,
And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. William Shakespeare.Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. William Shakespeare, R. II.The gnarring porter durst not whine for doubt;
Still were the furies while their sovereign spoke. Edward Fairfax.
Wikipedia
gnarl
GNAT is a free-software compiler for the Ada programming language which forms part of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). It supports all versions of the language, i.e. Ada 2012, Ada 2005, Ada 95 and Ada 83. Originally its name was an acronym that stood for GNU NYU Ada Translator, but that name no longer applies. The front-end and run-time are written in Ada.
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gnarl
A gnarl is a rough, twisted, or distorted part of something, especially a tree, caused due to old age or environmental factors. As a verb, to gnarl means to make twisted, knotted or distorted.
Webster Dictionary
Gnarlverb
to growl; to snarl
Gnarlnoun
a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree
Etymology: [See Gnar, n.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Gnarl
närl, n. a twisted knot in wood.—adj. Gnarled, knotty, twisted. [From a Teut. root, as in Ger. knurren, Dan. knort, a knot, gnarl, and prob. akin to gnarl in the sense of pressing close together.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of gnarl in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of gnarl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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