rare. [Related to KNAR; cf. knur and knurl.]
† 1. A tangle, knot. Obs.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus, Ann., III. ii. (1622), 65. The poison was found hidden in a knarle of her haire.
2. dial. ‘A hunch-backed or dwarfish man’ (Brockett, N. C. Gloss., 1825).
