knoll

plural knolls

1. A small mound or rounded hill.

   grassy knoll

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   On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

   1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Second”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VI, pages 62-63

   In the northern hemisphere, June 21 has the most daylight hours. Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.

   2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135

2. geographyA rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

plural knolls

1. A knell.

present singular third person knolls · participle present knolling · participle past knolled · past knolled

1. transitiveTo ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. ambitransitiveTo sound (something) like a bell; to knell.

   If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.

   c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]

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   For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]

   1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “Parisina”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 81, lines 394–395

   [A]ll that night I heard / The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

   1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 27

3. transitiveTo call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

   The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]

   1891, Thomas George Bonney, Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial, page 769

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   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.

   1851, Charles Mackay, The Mormons, Or Latter-day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mohomet", page 206

present singular third person knolls · participle present knolling · participle past knolled · past knolled

1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

1. A surname from German