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Kell vs Knell - What's the difference?

kell | knell |

As nouns the difference between kell and knell

is that kell is (obsolete) the caul or kell can be a kiln or kell can be a sort of pottage; kale while knell is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

As a verb knell is

to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

kell

English

Etymology 1

Compare caul.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) The caul.
  • (obsolete, figurative) That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I'll have him cut to the kell .
  • (obsolete) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
    • (Ben Jonson)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kiln.

    • Etymology 3

    A modification of kale.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A sort of pottage; kale.
    • (Ainsworth)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    knell

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
  • * , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
    • Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
  • to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
  • * 1750 , , Line 1
    • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

    Derived terms

    * death knell