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knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper

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Usage examples (5)
  • We crawled and banged another mile and a half, parked at the end of the road, the Mahogany Flat Campground, shouldered packs, and began the 7-mile hike to the knaggy summit.
  • But to enter in thereat, because it is of a knaggy, difficult, and rugged access, this is the question which I ask of you.
  • The other from tribulus, the head of a flail, or flagel, knaggy and knotty, (made commonly, as I take it, of a thick black thorn,) and then it imports, that afflictions...
  • Not overbearing, knaggy or demanding.
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