gnarled

monggol
definition
adjective
the gnarled old oak tree
knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age.
example
The disciples have 'gnarled' hands, rough faces with the grime and sweat of an arduous day at their fishing nets.
The legs were 'gnarled' and twisted, the left one bent at a crazy angle making the beast tip to one side slightly.
The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and 'gnarled' for commercial use.
I dreamt that we were old, really old, and we were walking with my 'gnarled' old hand in yours.
Renowned for its longevity, a 'gnarled' , twisted olive tree can bear fruit for several hundred years.
She held out her 'gnarled' hands, as twisted and brown as the galls of a walnut tree.
I followed them for at least a dozen meters before they ended at the foot of a 'gnarled' old oak, the massive boughs wearing snow and ice.
A 'gnarled' old man is standing on the terracotta balcony of his home.
The rough surface and the 'gnarled' features have become the distinctive marks of his works.
He can make a haunting face peer from the 'gnarled' old trunk of a great oak or fashion an oversized stag beetle from a lime tree.
The wind howled in an unearthly never-ending scream, whistling through the 'gnarled' , twisted trees.
She placated him, smoothing down his shoulder length hair with her rough and 'gnarled' hands.
Imagine feeling a little bored while you're sketching a 'gnarled' old boot in your art class.
From the tiny baby to the 'gnarled' old man, the reward for living is the same: death.
Her sister came away from the counter and sat down at one of the rough, 'gnarled' chairs at the table.
The 'gnarled' brown trees twisted into the earth and entwined each other in thick embraces.
Donovan reached out and grasped the old woman's 'gnarled' hand.
There was a picture in the paper I was reading of an old black woman, 'gnarled' as an olive tree.
The old 'gnarled' trees of the forest grew up to the edge of another bank, their roots jutting out into the deep water.
They were old, and they were tall, crooked and 'gnarled' from weather and from time.
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