knotty

1) Used of highways with a rough surface.

1676 as I came home from Leeds ... upon a knotty caucey ... my horse fell all along threw me in the mire, Northowram. The minor place-name Knotty Lane is on record in Lepton and Saddleworth.

dates 1676

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