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knarry, a. rare.|ˈnɑːrɪ|
Also 7, 9 gnarry.
[f. knar + -y.]
Having knars or knots; knotty.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1119 A forest..With knotty knarry [Thynne's ed. knarie] bareyne trees olde, Of stubbes sharpe. 1567Turberv. tr. Ovid's Epist. 22 This rygor to the woods and knarrie trees expell. Ibid. 23 My brothers bones with balefull blowes of knarrie clubbe he brake. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Knarry, knotty, stubbie. 1623Cockeram ii, Knotty, Gnarry. 1882Swinburne Athens 7 in Tristr. Lyonesse 179 Boughs all gaunt and gnarry. |