Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA knot or burl in a tree; a knurl, a gnarl.
From Middle English knarre (“a crag; twisted rock; knot in wood”), probably from Old English *cnearra, which could be related to cnotta. Cognate with Dutch knar, knor (“gnarl, knot”), German Low German Knurre, Knur (“knot in wood”), German Knorren (“knot in wood”). Related also to English knurl and gnarl.
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