Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.

  2. (ambitransitive)To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.

  3. (transitive)To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

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

Examples

2 sentences

  1. We used to play over by that grassy knoll.

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  2. Tom was on the grassy knoll with a rifle.

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Origin

Imitative, or variant of knell. Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous f

Imitative, or variant of knell.

Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

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Forms

knolls, knolling, knolled, knolled
Base formknoll · to knoll
3rd person singularknolls
Present participleknolling
Past simpleknolled
Past participleknolled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyknoll
he, she, itknolls

Past simpleLesson

all personsknolled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave knolled
he, she, ithas knolled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill knoll

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
knockA2knockoutknotB2knottyknowA1
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