Having knars or knots; knotty.

Characterized by knobs, protuberances, excrescences or concretions; gnarled, as a trunk or branch; having swollen joints, as a stem; gathered into…

Of trees, sticks: Crooked; having an uneven and rugged stem, gnarled, knotted; having cross-grained and knotted wood. Obsolete.

Having or covered with knubs; knobbly.

Of a tree: Full of knots. Cf. warred adj. at warre, n. derivatives, warren, adj., warry, adj.1

Of a tree: Full of knots. Cf. warried, adj., warren, adj.

Rough, irregular or broken in outline or contour; esp. of rocks, rugged; of a stem or branch: knotted, full of projections; of trees: ragged, stunted…

attributive rough and rugged like a crab-tree.

Having knurls or knots; gnarled.

Of a tree: Covered with protuberances; distorted, twisted; rugged, knotted.

Tortuous, twisted, gnarled.

= nodose, adj.

Knotty.

Full of snarls or knots.

Twisted; knotty, gnarled (cf. swirl, n. 3).

= gnarled, adj.

knotted, gnarled.