gnarled or knotty. hard and misshapen

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knurly

Can we this quote? Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:It seems too much like a great tree, beautiful, symmetrical, and full of leaves, but raised or desired only for fruit, yet bearing little, and some of that little not of good quality, but knurly or bitter.

gnarled or knotty. hard and misshapen