knoll
noun
[ nəʊl ]
• a small hill or mound.
• "a grassy knoll"
Similar:
hillock,
mound,
rise,
hummock,
hill,
hump,
knob,
tor,
tump,
barrow,
outcrop,
bank,
ridge,
dune,
elevation,
acclivity,
eminence,
drumlin,
brae,
law,
koppie,
Origin:
Old English cnoll ‘hilltop’, of Germanic origin; related to German Knolle ‘clod, lump, tuber’ and Dutch knol ‘tuber, turnip’.
knoll
noun
• the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.
knoll
verb
• (of a bell) ring solemnly; knell.
Origin:
late Middle English: probably an imitative alteration of knell.
