gnarled
UK /nɑː(ɹ)ld/ US /nɑː(ɹ)ld/
adj 2
Definitions
adj
1
Knotty and misshapen.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
2
Made rough by age or hard work.
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