Gnarl

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)l

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Online Etymology Dictionary|gnarled

Full definition of gnarl

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To knot or twist something.

Onomatopoeia

Verb

1. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.
• ShakespeareAnd wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.