knoll
IPA: nˈoʊɫ
noun
- A small mound or rounded hill.
- (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
- A knell.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
- (transitive, intransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
- (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
- To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
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Examples of "knoll" in Sentences
- The lower level is partially set into the knoll.
- The knoll is a popular picnic spot in the summer.
- The chapel was on the highest point of a sandy knoll.
- The knoll is named after the Bulgarian town of Gabrovo.
- He was interred in the Rawson family knoll in the Old Cemetery.
- The city itself stands on a knoll on the north banks of the river Mirar.
- The cross on the Plan de Jupiter is visible on the knoll above the hotel.
- He was buried on the knoll that is now the family's section of the cemetery.
- Tague stated that the shots came from near the monument on the grassy knoll.
- Much of the area is accessible to visitors including the park and grassy knoll.
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