gnarled

On Friday, in the scant shelter of a few gnarled olive trees near the Palestinian village of Beita, a first field outing became her last.

Nicky said he remembers Patrick noticing the "gnarled hands of ex-miners" in the job centres now filling in forms for benefits.

The property is miles from the highway, accessible on two-lane roads lined by horse paddocks, white fences and canopies of gnarled live oaks.

Originally from the word “gnarled” meaning rough or twisted, surfers adapted this word in the 1970s to describe a situation that can be seen as extreme such as riding an intimidating wave, said Warshaw.

If I close my eyes, the sounds the tree makes can carry me into memory’s place where a large stand of cottonwoods grew gnarled and ancient along the riverbank of my childhood.