Knarry

Quick meaning: Knarry is an adjective meaning (obsolete) knotty; gnarled.

Meaning

(obsolete) knotty; gnarled.

Example Sentences

The trees were old, and jagg'd, and dark; / With dying moss and knarry bark; / Above, the branches and lighter spray / Like a low and black cloud lay.

If, at such a time, you were to look through an elf-bore in wood, were a thorter knot (the knarry end of a branch) has been taken out, or through a hold made by an elf-arrow, (which has probably been made by a warble) in the skin of a beast that has been elf-shot, you may see the elf-bull haiging (butting) with the strongest bull or ox in the heard; but you will never see with that eye again.—Many a man has lost his sight in this manner!

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knotty, knurry, knarred, knarled, knurly, knaggy.

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