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knoll

/noʊl/

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What does knoll mean?

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.
More meanings (5)

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.

proper noun

  1. A surname from German

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IPA pronunciation

/noʊl/

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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.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
“They desired me to stay—my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts.”
Jane AustenMansfield ParkProject Gutenberg ebook #141
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.
Samuel White, Sir BakerWild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #3657
It stood upon a knoll near the lower end of a gully worn in the hillside by the torrents of many winters.
Samuel SmilesThe Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great BritainProject Gutenberg ebook #939
To the left he saw a sloping descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a wall.
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600