Tolling vs Knell - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between tolling and knell

is that tolling is present participle of lang=en while knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

is that tolling is the act by which a bell is tolled while knell is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

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(en noun)

The act by which a bell is tolled.

(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.

(en noun)

the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

* 1750 , , Line 1

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

* death knell