a. [f. KNAG sb.1 + -Y.] Abounding in pointed protuberances, knobs or knots: knotty, rough, rugged.
1552. Huloet, Knaggye, or full of knagges, scopulosus.
1569. Stocker, trans. Diod. Sic., III. xv. 131. The place was … so knaggy and hanging that the wayes were inaccessible.
1647. Fuller, Good Th. in Worse T. (1841), 153. The head of a flail, or flagel, knaggy and knotty.
1729. Hoole, Comenius’ Vis. World (1777), 38. The elke … hath knaggy horns.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., 96. Old bushes…, all knaggy and wormed.
Hence Knagginess.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Knagginess, fulness of Knots, as Wood.
