| 释义 |
gnarled, ppl. a.|nɑːld|
Also 9 knarled.
[var. of knurled; the form occurs in one passage of Shakes. (for which the sole authority is the folio of 1623), whence it came into general use in the nineteenth century.]
Of a tree: Covered with protuberances; distorted, twisted; rugged, knotted.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. ii. 116 Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable and gnarled Oke. 1803Leyden Scenes of Infancy i. 224 Bare are the boughs, the knarled roots uptorn. 1816Shelley Alastor 382 The gnarled roots Of mighty trees. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 15 Its orchard of gnarled and sprawling apple-trees. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. ix. (1857) 145 Old gnarled stems of ivy wind, snake-like round the..trunks. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 107 When as his huge gnarled trunk in furious eddies a whirlwind Riving wresteth amain.
transf. and fig.1821–30Ld. Cockburn Mem. vi. (1874) 293 His drawn bayonet in his large gnarled hand. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. ii. (1872) 7 That wild-wooded rocky coast, with its gnarled mountains. 1871Smiles Charac. viii. (1876) 219 The great gnarled man [Luther] had a heart as tender as a woman's. |