knoll

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

knoll, n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. knöl, Dan. knold.].

 A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.  [1913 Webster]
"On knoll or hillock rears his crest,
Lonely and huge, the giant oak."  [1913 Webster]

knoll, v. t. [OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.].

 To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
"Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours."  [1913 Webster]

knoll, v. i. 

 To sound, as a bell; to knell.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
"For a departed being's soul
The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll."  [1913 Webster]

knoll, n. 

 The tolling of a bell; a knell.  Byron.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

knoll, n. a small hill or mound.

knoll, v. & n. archaic
--v.
1 tr. & intr. = KNELL.
2 tr. summon by the sound of a bell.
--n. = KNELL.

Etymology

ME, var. of KNELL: perh. imit.

THESAURUS

knoll

anthill, barrow, brae, butte, crest, down, drumlin, dune, elevation, fell, foothills, hill, hillock, hilltop, hummock, knob, lofty peak, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mountaintop, peak, pic, pico, pike, pinnacle, point, precipice, rise, sand dune, spur, summit, swell, tor

ROGET THESAURUS

knoll

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.