knarry, a. rare.
(ˈnɑːrɪ)
Also 7, 9 gnarry.
[f. knar + -y.]
Having knars or knots; knotty.
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1119 A forest..With knotty knarry [Thynne's ed. knarie] bareyne trees olde, Of stubbes sharpe. 1567 Turberv. 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. 1613 R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Knarry, knotty, stubbie. 1623 Cockeram ii, Knotty, Gnarry. 1882 Swinburne Athens 7 in Tristr. Lyonesse 179 Boughs all gaunt and gnarry. |