• (RP) IPA: /nəʊl/, [nəʊl], [nɒʊl]
• (America) enPR: nōl, IPA: /noʊl/

knoll (plural knolls)

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
   • 1813, Walter Scott, Rokeby:

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

• French: monticule, tertre
• German: Hügel, kleiner Hügel, Hügelchen, Hubbel, Anhöhe, Buckel, Kopf
• Russian: холм
• Spanish: otero

knoll (plural knolls)

1. A knell.

knoll (knolls, present participle knolling; past and past participle knolled)

1. (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To sound, like a bell; to knell.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, scene VII, 114

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

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

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures

     Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

knoll (knolls, present participle knolling; past and past participle knolled)

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

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