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Kneeled vs Knelled - What's the difference?

kneeled | knelled |

As verbs the difference between kneeled and knelled

is that kneeled is (kneel) while knelled is (knell).

kneeled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (kneel)

    • Synonyms

    * knelt

    kneel

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
  • *
    • When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

    Derived terms

    * kneeler

    Related terms

    * genuflect * kneel down

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    knelled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (knell)

    • 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