KNOLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knoll mean? 

• KNOLL (noun)
  The noun KNOLL has 1 sense:

1. a small natural hill

  Familiarity information: KNOLL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOLL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small natural hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound

Hypernyms ("knoll" is a kind of...):

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knoll"):

anthill; formicary (a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest)

kopje; koppie (a small hill rising up from the African veld)

molehill (a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing)

 Context examples 

This was how it was: a spring of clear water rose almost at the top of a knoll.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Upon the knoll behind the house.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He crawled up a small knoll and surveyed the prospect.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They desired me to stay—my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The remainder was shut off by knolls of old trees, or luxuriant plantations, and the steep woody hills rising behind, to give it shelter, were beautiful even in the leafless month of March.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They left their wheels by the roadside and climbed to the brown top of an open knoll where the sunburnt grass breathed a harvest breath of dry sweetness and content.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate column; his face turned to me: his eye beaming watchful and keen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They still had hopes that the trainer had for some reason taken out the horse for early exercise, but on ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighbouring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favourite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now arose a struggle so fell, so long, so evenly sustained, that even now the memory of it is handed down amongst the Cantabrian mountaineers and the ill-omened knoll is still pointed out by fathers to their children as the Altura de los Inglesos, where the men from across the sea fought the great fight with the knights of the south. The last arrow was quickly shot, nor could the slingers hurl their stones, so close were friend and foe.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if my colleague of Hampshire has no scruples about its being brought off within his jurisdiction, I should very much like to see the fight, with which he spurred his horse up an adjacent knoll, from which he thought that he might gain the best view of the proceedings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)