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knurl (n.)
"hard excrescence," c.1600, probably a diminutive of Middle English
knor
"knot" (c.1400), related to
gnarl
, from Proto-Germanic
*knur-
(cf. German
knorren
"a knotty excrescence"). Related:
Knurly
.
