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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knoll \Knoll\, n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod,
lump, knob, bunch, OD knolle ball, bunch, Sw kn["o]l, Dan.
knold.]
A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the
top or crown of a hill.
On knoll or hillock rears his crest, Lonely and huge,
the giant oak. --Sir W.
Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knoll \Knoll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Knolled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Knolling}.] [OE. knollen, AS cnyllan See {Knell}.]
To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon to toll; to
proclaim, or summon, by ringing. ``Knolled to church.''
--Shak.
Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knoll \Knoll\, v. i.
To sound, as a bell; to knell. --Shak.
For a departed being's soul The death hymn peals, and
the hollow bells knoll. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knoll \Knoll\, n.
The tolling of a bell; a knell. [R.] --Byron.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
knoll
n : a small natural hill [syn: {mound}, {hillock}, {hummock}, {hammock}]
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