Now dial. [f. SNARL sb.1 or v.1]

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  1.  Tangled, ravelled.

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1647.  G. W., Pluto’s Progr. thro. Gt. Brit., 15. Thy snarly haire, thy cheeks as red As paint that they on signes do spread.

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1876.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., 178/1. Snarly,… knotty or twisted, as entangled thread.

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  2.  Full of snarls or knots.

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1770.  Washington, Writ. (1889), II. 311. Walnut, cherry, and some other woods that grow snarly and neither tall nor large.

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1890.  Gloucester Gloss., 144. Snarly.… Knotty, cross-grained; of wood.

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