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Knoll
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The tolling of a bell; a knell. [R.] Byron.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To sound, as a bell; to knell. Shak. For a departed being's soul The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll. Byron.