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knar or knur (NAHR) - n., a knot or burl in a tree trunk or root, a knurl.
Can be traced to Middle English knarre, which originally meant a rough stone before becoming a knot on a tree, but before that there is much speculation -- there are several apparent Germanic cognates, including Low German knarre or knorre, Dutch knar, and conjectured Old English form *cnear. Either way, one makes for pretty furniture but hard woodworking.
---L.
Can be traced to Middle English knarre, which originally meant a rough stone before becoming a knot on a tree, but before that there is much speculation -- there are several apparent Germanic cognates, including Low German knarre or knorre, Dutch knar, and conjectured Old English form *cnear. Either way, one makes for pretty furniture but hard woodworking.
---L.
