Knoll (?), n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. knol, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Knoll, n.
The tolling of a bell; a knell.
[R.]
Byron.
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