gnarled
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- First attested Shakespeare 1603:
- : Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable [unwedgable] and gnarled Oke [oak].
- : Measure for Measure, Act II, scene ii, line 116
- Variant of knurled, from knurl. Surface analysis is gnarl + -ed, though gnarl is a later back-formation. Popular use by 19th century.
- See gnarl .
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