Making Discoveries

Did you know that there's a noun gnarl - meaning a sort of growling snarl? No you didn't. And neither did I until I found it in the course of my researches today. It seems Bronte uses it in Wuthering Heights: My caress provoked a long guttural gnarl. (It's about a dog, not a love scene.) Oh, and you can use it as a verb, as WS does: And wolves are gnarling, who shall gnaw thee first.

Gosh, I love the OED. Could lose myself in it. (Also had fun with a lot of stuff about gnashing, but I really must restrain my enthusiasm.)