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Knelled vs Knolled - What's the difference?

knelled | knolled |

As verbs the difference between knelled and knolled

is that knelled is (knell) while knolled is (knoll).

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

    knolled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (knoll)
    • The bell knolled slowly but loudly.

    knoll

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small mound or rounded hill.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

    Etymology 2

    Imitative, or variant of (knell).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A knell.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
  • To sound, like a bell; to knell.
  • * Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
    • If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
  • * Byron
    • For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll .
  • * Tennyson
    • Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.

    Etymology 3

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

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.