gnarled

adj

1. Knotty and misshapen.

   “Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.”

   “For students of history and culture, the cherry trees’ delicate flowers and gnarled trunks speak to the enduring soft power of global goodwill, culture, and faith in a better future to overcome division, including wartime enmity and destruction.”

2. Made rough by age or hard work.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1)
2. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2)