Knoll

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /nəʊl, nɔʊl/
• US IPA: /noÊŠl/
• US IPA: /nlÌ©/
• Homophones: null

Old English cnoll ("summit"). Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol ("tuber"), Swedish knöl ("tuber"), Danish knold ("hillock, clod, tuber") and German Knolle ("bulb")

Full definition of knoll

Noun

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
• Sir Walter ScottOn knoll or hillock rears his crest,
  Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

Imitative, or variant of knell.

Noun

1. A knell.

Verb

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. To sound, like a bell; to knell.
• Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
3. If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
• ByronFor a departed being's soul
  The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.
• TennysonHeavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.