knoll

Meanings

Plural: knolls

Noun

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

Synonyms

hammock, hillock, hummock, mound

Scrabble Score: 9

knoll is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
knoll is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
knoll is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

knoll is a valid Words With Friends word