gnarled

• adj. [木] 多節的；粗糙的；多瘤的
• v. 把…扭曲；長木瘤（gnarl的過去分詞）

來自輔音叢gn, 節，塊，疙瘩，詞源同knot, knoll.

gnarled

gnarled: [17] Gnarled is essentially a 19thcentury word. It is recorded once before then, in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 1603 (‘Thy sharp and sulphurous bolt splits the unwedgable and gnarled oak’), but its modern currency is due to its adoption by early 19th-century romantic writers. It is probably a variant of knurled [17], itself a derivative of knur or knor ‘rough misshapen lump, as on a tree trunk’ [14], which is related to German knorren ‘knot, gnarled branch or trunk’.
=> knurled

gnarled (adj.)

c. 1600, probably a variant of knurled, from Middle English knar "knob, knot in wood" (late 14c.), earlier "a crag, twisted rock" (early 13c.), from a general group of Germanic words that includes English knob, knock, knuckle, knoll, knurl. Gnarl (v.) "make knotty," gnarl (n.) "a knotty growth on wood," and gnarly (adj.) all seem to owe their existence in modern English to Shakespeare's use of gnarled in 1603:

Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable and gnarled Oke. ["Measure for Measure," II.ii.116]

"(Gnarled) 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" [OED].

1. The tree has gnarled red branches and deep green leaves.

這棵樹的樹枝扭曲多瘤且呈紅色，樹葉則是深綠色。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a gnarled old oak tree

多節瘤的老橡樹

來自《權威詞典》

3. The fingers were gnarled, lumpy, with long, curving nails suggestive of animal claws.

手指粗糙，關節突出，指甲又長又彎，讓人想起動物的爪子。

來自柯林斯例句

4. His hands were gnarled with arthritis.

他的雙手因患關節炎而扭曲變形。

來自辭典例句

5. Sailor as he was, it was easy enough for him to clamber up the gnarled trunk.

他雖說是個水手,攀上這扭曲的樹幹, 倒還容易.

來自辭典例句