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knoll

Pronunciation: /nəʊl/

The English word “knoll” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small mound or rounded hill.
  2. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
  3. A knell.

verb

  1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  2. To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
  3. To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
  4. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Etymology

From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta. Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).

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