a. rare. Also 7, 9 gnarry. [f. KNAR + -Y.] Having knars or knots; knotty.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1119. A forest … With knotty knarry [Thynne’s ed. knarie] bareyne trees olde, Of stubbes sharpe.
1567. Turberv., trans. Ovid’s Epist., 22. This rygor to the woods and knarrie trees expell. Ibid., 23. My brothers bones with balefull blowes of knarrie clubbe he brake.
1613. R. Cawdrey, Table Alph., Knarry, knotty, stubbie.
1623. Cockeram, II. Knotty, Gnarry.
1882. Swinburne, Athens, 7, in Tristr. Lyonesse, 179. Boughs all gaunt and gnarry.
