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knoll
/noʊl/
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What does knoll mean?
noun
- A small mound or rounded hill.
- A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
- A knell.
More meanings (5)
verb
- To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
- To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
- To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
- To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
proper noun
- A surname from German
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IPA pronunciation
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In the pages of books
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It was the place at which, four hours earlier, his mother had sat down exhausted on the knoll covered with shepherd’s-thyme.
“They desired me to stay—my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts.”
More book examples (3)
A great cheer from our men, who had witnessed the flying shot from their position on the knoll, was highly satisfactory.
It stood upon a knoll near the lower end of a gully worn in the hillside by the torrents of many winters.
To the left he saw a sloping descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a wall.