Part of wood where a branch diverged.
Make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath.
Something twisted and tight and swollen.
1My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.
2I leaned against a gnarl in the olive tree behind.
3I lifted my body up into the hedge and snaked my legs deep into its gnarl.
4The cup had been carved out of a gnarl, judging from the pattern of the wood grain.
5I expect Maud will have the family tree along and urge us to stop overnight at every gnarl on the 'trunk.'
6There is no gnarl about him yet, but it will come, most likely in further increments against France in Paris on Sunday.
7She'd gnarl her face up for no reason while giving out bedtime meds and slam back into the nursing station without a word.
8As the pane shattered I wheeled my feet and drove them down, ensuring they went first with the rupturing snow into the gnarl below.
9He stood upon the highest vantage-point that he could attain with safety, where a shaggy gnarl of the all-pervading ivy served as a friendly stay.
10Gnarled oaks and short dense evergreens cast tiny shadows across the path.
11A tall familiar figure walking with a staff of twisted gnarled wood.
12Mature trees crowned the rise, gripping it in gnarled fists of roots.
13Two large gnarled hands burst out of the wood, reaching for me.
14Dulles held his copy in trembling fingers gnarled with arthritis and gout.
15Waves gently lapped at the gnarled, exposed roots of the oak tree.
16Columns rose from pool to ceiling, thick and gnarled as tree trunks.