# knoll
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nəʊl/, /nɒl/
** Audio (Southern England); /nɒl/:(file)
* (General American) enPR: nōl, IPA: /noʊl/
* Rhymes: -əʊl, -ɒl

### Etymology 1

From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).

#### Noun

knoll (plural knolls)
* A small mound or rounded hill.
** 1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Second”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VI, pages 62-63:On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
** 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:In the northern hemisphere, June 21 has the most daylight hours. Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.
* (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
    Coordinate term: seamount

##### Derived terms

* Brent Knoll
* knoller
* Oak Knoll
* reef knoll

##### Related terms

* dale
* hill
* rill

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Imitative, or variant of knell.

#### Noun

knoll (plural knolls)
* A knell.

#### Verb

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)
* (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
* (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
** 1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “Parisina”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 81, lines 394–395:For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]
** 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 27:[A]ll that night I heard / The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
* (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
** 1851, Charles Mackay, The Mormons, Or Latter-day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mohomet", page 206:Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.
** 1891, Thomas George Bonney, Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial, page 769:The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]

### Etymology 3

Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

#### Verb

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)
* To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

### References

* Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012