Definition of knoll
: a small round hill : mound
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The snow was wet and deep, and the tracks of those three wolves were all around on the knoll.
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Combines ran up and over knolls and ravines, harvesting wheat.
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The competitors, unfortunately mostly male, gathered on a nearby grassy knoll.
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From above, the facility—which houses both the distillery and the visitor center—looks like a space-age Hobbiton with its grassy, undulating roof of steam-belching knolls.
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Although there’s not a lot of elevation change, the trail ascends several knolls for sweet views of eastern Arizona’s White Mountains.
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This home is built into the rocks on a small knoll, with its own private stairway on to the beach.
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Hang out on the grassy knoll and watch passersby or catch the ships and yachts sailing on San Diego Bay.
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Then sometime in 2013, Lopez remembered a grassy knoll close to the El Mercadito neighborhood with a sweeping view of the City Terrace hills.
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Origin and Etymology of knoll
Middle English knol, from Old English cnoll; akin to Old Norse knollr mountaintop
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First Known Use: before 12th century
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Origin and Etymology of knoll
Middle English, probably alteration of knellen to knell
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First Known Use: 15th century
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