knoll

See also: Knoll

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nəʊl/, [nəʊl], [nɒʊl]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /noʊl/

Etymology 1

From Old English cnoll ‎(“summit”). 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)

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

Translations

small mound

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小山丘 ‎(xiǎo shānqiū), 小山丘 ‎(xiǎo qiū)

• Finnish: kumpare (fi), knööli
• French: monticule (fr) m
• German: Hügel (de) m
• Hungarian: halom (hu), dombocska (hu)

• Icelandic: hóll (is) m
• Japanese: 小山 ‎(こやま, koyama)
• Latin: tumulus m
• Maori: upane, karapuke
• Norwegian: kolle m
• Russian: холм (ru) m ‎(xolm), хо́лмик (ru) m ‎(xólmik), буго́р (ru) m ‎(bugór), бугоро́к (ru) m ‎(bugorók), го́рка (ru) f ‎(górka), приго́рок (ru) m ‎(prigórok), со́пка (ru) f ‎(sópka)
• Swedish: knalle (sv) c

Etymology 2

Imitative, or variant of knell.

Noun

knoll ‎(plural knolls)

1. A knell.

Verb

knoll ‎(third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. To sound, like a bell; to knell.
   • Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114

   If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.

   • Byron

     For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.

   • Tennyson

     Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

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)

1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.