What does gnarl mean?

Definitions for gnarl
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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"

  2. gnarlverb

    twist into a state of deformity

    "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

  3. murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarlverb

    make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath

    "she grumbles when she feels overworked"

Wiktionary

  1. gnarlnoun

    a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

  2. gnarlnoun

    something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

  3. 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.

  4. gnarlverb

    to knot or twist something

  5. gnarlverb

    to snarl or growl; to gnar

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Gnarlverb

    to growl; to snarl

  2. Gnarlnoun

    a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree

  3. Etymology: [See Gnar, n.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. 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.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gnarl in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gnarl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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