knoll

Meaning

Noun

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
2. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

Verb

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
3. To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

Verb

To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nəʊl/

Etymology

From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).