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Knoll
Definitions
- 1 A surname from German
- 1 A small mound or rounded hill.
"On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak."
- 2 A knell.
- 3 a small natural hill wordnet
- 4 A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
- 1 To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. transitive
- 2 To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
- 3 To sound (something) like a bell; to knell. ambitransitive
"If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church."
- 4 To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc). transitive
"Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church."
Etymology
From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. 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”).
Imitative, or variant of knell.
Imitative, or variant of knell.
Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.
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