knoll

Meanings

Noun

• A small mound or rounded hill.
• A knell.

Verb

• To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
• To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
• To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
• To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Origin

• From Old English cnoll ("summit"), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla-, possibly related to cnotta.
• Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol, Swedish knöl, Danish knold and German Knolle.
• Imitative, or variant of knell.
• Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.