单词 | knar |
释义 | knarn. 1. A rugged rock or stone. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [noun] stonec825 knara1250 scar13.. craga1375 nipc1400 knag1552 knee1590 jag1831 man1897 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 999 That lond nis god,..Ac wildernisse hit is and weste, Knarres and cludes. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2166 Hyȝe bonkkeȝ & brent..& ruȝe knokled knarrez [MS reads knarreȝ] with knorned stoneȝ. 1837 W. Thornber Hist. Blackpool 184 (E.D.D.) Gnarrs are large beds of stones, covered with incrustations formed by insects for their habitations. 2. A knot in wood; spec. a mass orginating in an abortive branch, forming a protuberance covered with bark, on the trunk or root of a tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > knot knara1382 warrec1407 knob1440 knot?1523 knur1542 pin1545 knag1555 snar1611 bur-knot1618 bur1725 gnarl1824 burl1885 snarla1891 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xiii. 13 A crokid tree, and ful of knarres [a1425 L.V. knottis]. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Gnarre, a hard knot in wood. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 44 Prickly Stubs, instead of Trees,..Or Woods with Knots, and Knares deform'd and old. 1805 Miss Seward in R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) II. 572 The..knots and knares with which it was covered. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xiii. 53 Not light The boughs and tapering, but with knares deform'd. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 279 The stick with which the game is played, having a gnar or knot at the end of it. 1869 M. T. Masters Veg. Teratol. 419 Knaurs may occasionally be used for purposes of propagation. 1869 M. T. Masters Veg. Teratol. 158 The huge gnaurs and burrs met with occasionally on some trees often produce great quantities..of roots. 1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Gnaurs, burrs or knotty excrescences on tree-trunks or roots, probably from clusters of adventitious buds. 1903 F. W. Burbidge Let. to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 June (MS.) I beg to hand you a ‘gnaur’ or swollen, arrested branch of a Tulip tree. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person knarc1405 hoddy-doddya1556 trunk1586 truncheon1601 stump1602 fubs1614 dumpling1617 punch1669 Punchinello1669 spud1688 knur1691 knurl1691 runt1699 squab1699 swad1706 humpty-dumpty1785 junt1787 knurlinga1796 pudge1808 stumpie1820 nugget1825 podge1834 dump1840 dumpy1868 pyknic1925 mesomorph1940 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 551 He was short scholdred, brood, a thikke knarre [so most MSS.; Lansd. gnarre]. Derivatives knarred adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots knarryc1405 knottedc1440 crabbed?1518 knubbed1567 warried1567 warry1567 scraggy1574 crab-knob1582 knurly1602 gnarleda1616 thwarterous1625 nodous1646 snubbya1758 snarly1770 swirly1786 gnarly1846 knarred1849 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective] > having (a) protuberance(s) > having knobbles or knots knurneda1225 warreda1398 knarryc1405 knottyc1405 knurredc1430 knurry1513 knobby1526 knurrish1530 knappy1552 bunchy1562 gouty1597 nody1611 boiny1615 gnarleda1616 nodosous1623 nodose1657 tuberose1704 nodated1710 knablick1788 tuberculed1798 knubbly1809 knubby1828 nubbly1829 knobbled1840 knobbly1844 knarred1849 nubby1864 1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 10 The knarred and crooked cedar knees. 1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 19 Gnared with knots and knobs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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