gnarl

gnarl

English

A gnarled tree trunk.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)l

Etymology 1

Back-formation from gnarled.[1]

Noun

gnarl (plural gnarls)

1. A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
2. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.
3. (mathematics) 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 ξ.

Derived terms

• gnarly

Translations

knot in wood

Bulgarian: чеп (bg) m (čep), чвор (bg) m (čvor) Finnish: pahka (fi) French: noeud (fr) m (du bois) Galician: nó m Greek: όζος (el) m (ózos), ρόζος (el) m (rózos)

Italian: nodo (it) m (di albero) Polish: sęk (pl) m Russian: сучо́к (ru) m (sučók) Spanish: nudo (es) Thai: ตาไม้ (dtaa-máai)

something resembling a knot in wood

Finnish: pahkura, kyhmy (fi)

Spanish: nudo (es) m

math: average of the square of curl

Verb

gnarl (third-person singular simple present gnarls, present participle gnarling, simple past and past participle gnarled)

1. (transitive) To knot or twist something.

Translations

to knot or twist

Finnish: väännellä (fi), murjoa

Spanish: anudar (es), enredar (es)

Adjective

gnarl

1. Gnarled, knotty, twisted.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia

Verb

gnarl (third-person singular simple present gnarls, present participle gnarling, simple past and past participle gnarled)

1. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.
   • Shakespeare

     And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.

Translations

to snarl

Bulgarian: ръмжа (bg) (rǎmža)

Finnish: murista (fi), äristä (fi)

References

1. “gnarled” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.