Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots:
— Gnarled and knotted hands.

synonyms: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty.

Roget 321: dense, solid; solidified etc. v.; caseous; pukka^†; coherent, cohesive etc. 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish^†; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous^†; incompressible; constipated; concrete etc. (hard) 323; knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous^†, stuffy.    undissolved, unmelted^†, unliquefied^†, unthawed^†.    indivisible, indiscerptible^†, infrangible^†, indissolvable^†, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.    ... show more

Roget 59a: gnarled, knarled^†.    complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.    ... show more

Roget 256: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted; rugged, rugose^†, rugous^†; knurly^†; asperous^†, crisp, salebrous^†, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth^†, roughhewn^†; craggy, cragged; crankling^†, scraggy; prickly etc. (sharp) 253; arborescent etc. 242^†; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous^†; laciniate^†, laciniform^†, laciniose^†; pappose^†; pileous^†, pilose^†; trichogenous^†, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^†, crinite^†; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^†, bearded, pilous^†, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^†; setous^†, setose^†, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.    downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate^†, lanated^†; lanuginous^†, lanuginose^†; tomentose^†; fluffy.    ... show more

Polish: sękaty