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Knelling

Knell \Knell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Knelling.] [OE. knellen, knillen, As. cnyllan. See Knell, n.] To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.
--Beau. & Fl.

Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, ``alone''.
--Ld. Lytton.

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knelling

vb. (present participle of knell English)

Usage examples of "knelling".

The victim of someone who hoped to escape the Knelling, lying ignored, the desired constituents of his body going to waste.

From within there came a faint, deep knelling, rhythmic, patterned, as if someone were delving .

Tanalasta was interrupted by the knelling of an alarm bell, and the map room broke into a tumult of voices and clattering boots.

But they rode none of these snow-covered high pathways as on up the canyon they forged, at times passing through narrow slots and at other times crossing o'er wide valley floors, faring through snow and on stone and gentle loam alike, now and then clattering on a frozen stretch of the river itself, hooves knelling on the ice, but always returning to the verdant galleries of the evergreen forest carpeting the vale and reaching from side to side.

And Tip's own eyes widened as he heard the thudding of many hooves knelling within the soil.