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knolled

knolled is the simple past and past participle of knoll.

Meaning of knoll

Verb (1)

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

  1. (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  2. (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
    • If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  3. (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
    • Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.1851, Charles Mackay, The Mormons, Or Latter-day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mohomet", page 206

Verb (2)

knoll (third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

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

See all 8 meanings of knoll

Adjective

knolled

  1. Having a knoll (hill) or knolls.
    • That part of the material resting on the rock maintained its form, except as included masses of ice left pits when they melted, developing the knolled and pitted surface to which is given the name "kame terrace" or morainal terrace.1923, Geological Survey (U.S.), Contributions to the Geography of the United States, 1922-, page 49
    • Because I now have an eye-line view of the tree, I notice how beautifully it is set against the double-knolled hill behind it. That mounded rise is topped with boulders that, […]2018, Michael P. Branch, How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN

Questions about knolled

What does knolled mean?
Knolled means having a knoll (hill) or knolls.
What is knolled the simple past and past participle of?
Knolled is the simple past and past participle of knoll.
What part of speech is knolled?
Knolled is an adjective.

Words near knolled in the dictionary

  1. knoleige
  2. Knoles
  3. Knoleses
  4. knoll
  5. Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy
  6. knolled
  7. knollenorgan
  8. knollenorgans
  9. knoller
  10. knollers
  11. knolling

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