knelling

Verb

knell (third-person singular simple present knells, present participle knelling, simple past and past participle knelled)

1. (intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
   • I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee,
     And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing,
     Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Spanish Curate, act V, scene 2
2. (transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
   • Let thy friends be as the dead in doom,
     And build to them a final tomb;
     Let the starred shade that nightly falls
     Still celebrate their funerals,
     And the bell of beetle and of bee
     Knell their melodious memory.October 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Woodnotes, Number II”, in The Dial, volume 2, number 2, page 212
3. (transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

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