Knoll

Quick meaning: Knoll is a noun meaning A small mound or rounded hill.

Meaning

A small mound or rounded hill.

More Meanings

1. (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
2. A knell.
3. (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
4. (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
5. (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
6. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Example Sentences

grassy knoll

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

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

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

Word Forms

• knolls
• knolling
• knolled

Synonyms for knoll

Depending on context, synonyms include mound, hummock, hammock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hummock, mound, hammock, colliculus, colline, knap.

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