Knoll
[nəʊl] or [nol]
Definition
(n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
(v. t.) To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
(v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to knell.
(n.) The tolling of a bell; a knell.
Editor: Rosanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hillock, mound.
Checker: Norris
Definition
n. a round hillock: the top of a hill.
Typed by Hector
Examples
- Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Upon the knoll behind the house. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate column; his face turned to me: his eye beaming watchful and keen. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His story done, he approached the little knoll where I and Ginevra sat apart. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By the time I get to the knoll they may be gone somewhere else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They were quite alone in a forsaken little stream-mouth, and on the knoll just behind was the clump of trees. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was the place at which, four hours earlier, his mother had sat down exhausted on the knoll covered with shepherd's-thyme. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Go therefore they must to that knoll, and through that gate; but the gate was locked. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Or if we are, Miss Price will be so good as to tell him that he will find us near that knoll: the grove of oak on the knoll. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They desired me to stay--my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Editor: Melinda