Luxembourgish

Noun

Knoll f ‎(plural Knollen)

1. (botany) bulb
2. (botany) tuber

English

Noun

knoll ‎(plural knolls)

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.

Translations

Etymology 2

Imitative, or variant of knell.

Noun

knoll ‎(plural knolls)

1. A knell.

Verb

knoll ‎(third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. 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

knoll ‎(third-person singular simple present knolls, present participle knolling, simple past and past participle knolled)

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