"Knurl" is a word in ENGLISH
To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the
edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.
A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a
nodule; a boss or projection.
One who, or that which, is crossgrained.
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
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The fishing season hasn't opened and a fisherman who doesn't have a license, is casting for trout as a stranger approaches and asks "Any luck?""Any luck? This is a wonderful spot. I took 10 out of this stream yesterday" he boasts. "Is that so? By the way, do you know who I am?" asks the stranger. "Nope.""Well, meet the new game warden." "Oh," gulped the fisherman. "Well, do you know who I am?" "Nope". "Meet the biggest liar in the state."
Perverse; untractable; contrary.
Read the complete definitionHaving the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting …
Read the complete definitionKnotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.
Read the complete definitionFull of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.
Read the complete definitionFig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
Read the complete definitionA North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood …
Read the complete definitionIll-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
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