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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;
- Example: "gnarled and knotted hands"
- Example: "a knobbed stick"
[syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gnarly \Gnarl"y\, a. Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained. [1913 Webster]
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):

gnarly /nar'lee/, adj. Both obscure and hairy (sense 1). "Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang.