Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small rounded hill or mound; a hillock.
- v. To ring mournfully; knell.
- v. To ring or sound (a bell, for example) mournfully; knell.
- n. A knell.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To ring, as a bell; especially, to ring slowly, for or as for a funeral; toll; knell.
- To ring or sound a knell for; warn or draw by the sound of a bell.
- To sound, as a bell; ring.
- n. The ringing of a bell: as, the curfew knoll.
- n. The top or crown of a hill; more generally, a small, gently rounded hill or mount.
- n. A turnip.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
- v. To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
- v. To sound, as a bell; to knell.
- n. The tolling of a bell; a knell.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small natural hill
Etymologies
- Middle English knol, from Old English cnoll.Middle English knollen, probably alteration of knellen, to knell; see knell.
Examples
“This piece which I own, consisting of nearly 20 acres on top of a knoll, is just 15 minutes from the nearest town yet has unobstructed views extending at least 30 miles in every direction.”
“Love the vintage farah slacks and penny loafers our shooter from the grassy knoll is wearing on front cover.”
““A sun (face) on wand (neck) in knoll of sand (hips) she showed” etc,”
“A sun on wand in knoll of sand she showed, i. 217; x.”
“At last the whole cloud falls down over a knoll – all at once – the next instant the knoll is entirely covered with gray larks, pretty red-gray-white bullfinches, speckled starlings and greenish yellow titmice.”
“When it comes to American healthcare, the biggest grassy knoll is right where you’d expect to find it - in suburbia.”
Matthew Yglesias » Public Health Versus Health Care Financing
“Re: When it comes to American healthcare, the biggest grassy knoll is right where you’d expect to find it - in suburbia.”
Matthew Yglesias » Public Health Versus Health Care Financing
“It sat on what she would have termed a knoll rather than a hill, with the front slope tamed into step-down terraces decked with shrubs she imagined put on a hell of a show in the spring and summer.”
Blood Brothers
“The buildings on the knoll were a gray-black stain with flickers of light here and there.”
Flight in Yiktor
“Of the 720 acres within the city limits, 270 acres lie at a considerable height above the river and constitute what are known as the knoll or uplands of Hoboken.”
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