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knar

PRONUNCIATION:

(nahr)

MEANING:

noun: A knot on a tree or in wood.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Middle English knarre. Earliest documented use: 1250.

USAGE:

“When Gong Chun decided to make a teapot that resembled the knar of an old ginkgo tree, he did it by hand.”
Kuei-hsiang Lo; The Stonewares of Yixing; Hong Kong University Press; 1986.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer, philosopher and professor (b. 6 Jul 1946)

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