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knoll
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knoll \Knoll\, v. i.
To sound, as a bell; to knell. --Shak.
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For a departed being's soul
The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.
--Byron.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knoll \Knoll\, n. The tolling of a bell; a knell. [R.] --Byron. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knoll \Knoll\ (n[=o]l), n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle,
knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw.
kn["o]l, Dan. knold.]
A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the
top or crown of a hill.
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On knoll or hillock rears his crest,
Lonely and huge, the giant oak. --Sir W.
Scott.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knoll \Knoll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Knolling.] [OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.] To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing. "Knolled to church." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
