Knoll vs Parapet - What's the difference?
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A small mound or rounded hill.
* Sir Walter Scott
To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
To sound, like a bell; to knell.
* Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
* Byron
* Tennyson
A low retaining wall.
Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=26 A fortification consisting of a wall.
Knoll is a related term of parapet.
As nouns the difference between knoll and parapet
is that knoll is bulb while parapet is a low retaining wall.knoll
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
Etymology 2
Imitative, or variant of (knell).Verb
(en verb)- If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
- For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll .
- Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
Etymology 3
Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.parapet
English
(wikipedia parapet)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.}}