Crossword clues for knoll
knoll
- Ring, as a bell
- Grassy mound
- Small rounded hill
- Small natural mound
- Small natural hill
- Grassy hill
- Dealey Plaza feature
- Round mound
- Grassy area of Dallas' Dealey Plaza
- Grassy ___ (spot that's the focus of some JFK assassination conspiracy theories)
- Grassy ___ (part of Dealey Plaza of interest to Kennedy assassination investigators)
- Grassy ___
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knoll \Knoll\ (n[=o]l), n. [AS. cnoll; akin to G. knolle, knollen, clod, lump, knob, bunch, OD. knolle ball, bunch, Sw. kn["o]l, Dan. knold.] A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
On knoll or hillock rears his crest,
Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Knoll \Knoll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knolled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Knolling.] [OE. knollen, AS. cnyllan. See Knell.]
To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to
proclaim, or summon, by ringing. ``Knolled to church.''
--Shak.
Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
--Tennyson.
Knoll \Knoll\, v. i.
To sound, as a bell; to knell.
--Shak.
For a departed being's soul
The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.
--Byron.
Knoll \Knoll\, n.
The tolling of a bell; a knell. [R.]
--Byron.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cnoll "hilltop, small hill, clod, ball," related to Old Norse knollr "hilltop;" German knolle "clod, lump;" Dutch knol "turnip," nol "a hill."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A small mound or rounded hill. Etymology 2
n. A knell. vb. 1 To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. 2 To sound, like a bell; to knell. Etymology 3
vb. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
In geography, knoll is another term for hillock, a small, low, round natural hill or mound.
Knoll may also refer to:
Knoll, Inc is a design firm that produces office systems, seating, files and storage, tables and desks, textiles (KnollTextiles), and accessories for the office, home, and higher education settings. The company manufactures furniture for the home by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll (Florence Schust), Frank Gehry, Maya Lin and Eero Saarinen under the company's KnollStudio division. Over 40 Knoll designs can be found in the permanent design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Knoll is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Knoll (1796–1863), Austrian theologian
- Andrew H. Knoll (born 1951), Harvard University professor and paleontologist
- Catherine Baker Knoll (1930–2008), American politician and 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
- Corina Knoll, American journalist
- Christoph Knoll (1563–1630), German theologian and hymn writer
- Erwin Knoll (1931–1994), American journalist
- Florence Knoll (born 1917), American architect and furniture designer
- Hans Knoll (1914–1955), German-American co-founder of the Knoll company (see below); husband of Florence Knoll
- Hans Knöll (1913–1978), German physician and microbiologist
- Jessica Knoll, American author of Luckiest Girl Alive
- Johanna Knoll, German rower
- Jeannette Knoll (born 1943), member of the Louisiana Supreme Court since 1997
- John Knoll (born 1962), co-writer of the program Adobe Photoshop and visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic
- József Knoll, drug researcher who developed selegiline
- Konrad Knoll (1829–1899), German sculptor
- Marvin Knoll (born 1990), German footballer
- Max Knoll (1897–1969), German electrical engineer, inventor and professor
- Mike Knoll (born 1951), American collegiate football coach
- Silke-Beate Knoll (born 1967), German sprinter
- Thomas Knoll, co-writer of Adobe Photoshop and brother of John Knoll
- Xenia Knoll (born 1992), Swiss tennis player
Usage examples of "knoll".
They could just see these, partly hidden by a knoll that abutted from the plateau on which the homestead was placed.
On a little grassy knoll just outside the town our train halted for a moment--the Indians to take their fill of chicha, and bid their friends good-by, and we to call the roll and take an inventory.
The boat swung away from the main knot of the Min, diping east again, cutting yet farther into the cultivated lands, then it rounded a rocky knoll and started west.
Humpty Dumpty, but no wall involved: one Humpty fell from the side of a grassy knoll and another from the window of a book depository.
His fighting chieftains each sought advantage of the best ground possible-a knoll or hillock, or a hedgy place of concealment, with their warriors ranged about them, shields of tanned hide sheltering their bodies, spears and axes and bows at the ready.
I fold All my sons when their knell is knolled, And so with living motion all are fed, And the quick spring like weeds out of the dead.
Both arrows whizzed past him, the rusty iron head of the second one nicking and shredding the seam of his kurta, and buried themselves in the side of the knoll.
At this moment, however, two British guns mounted on a knoll opened upon the Russians, the victorious French threatened their flank, the Russian gunners limbered up and retired, and their infantry suddenly fell back.
They rode slowly toward the knoll, then one man moved out in front and spurred his horse up the hill, broad thick shoulders slumped against the rain.
Among the knot of men upon the little, pine fringed knoll, were Big Bill, Dart, MacKelvey and half a dozen of the curious from El Toyon and the mountain ranches.
Elkin, Mayor of Craeg, free and untaxed foraging for their sheep on the Crown Land south of town, all the way to Griswold Knolls.
A sparse carpet of new green grass, just beginning to shoot its tiny leaves through the moist soil, painted a thin watercolor wash of verdancy on the rich brown earth of clearings and knolls.
Just so have the swifts left the hollow trees and taken to my chimney, the phoebe to my pigpen, the swallow to my barn loft, the vireo to my lilac bush, the screech owls to my apple trees, the red squirrel for its nest to my ice-house, and the flat-nosed adder to the sandy knoll by my beehives.
Then came a nearer howling, and the old woman with the beard, who watched the fire on the knoll, was waving her arms, and Wau, the man who had been chipping the flint, was getting to his feet.
All the others gathered at the bunkhouse or the cookshack, their attention divided between the big house on the knoll where Webb lay unconscious and the direction from which the doctor would arrive.