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KNOLL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small natural hill
Synonyms:
hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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:
How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on a little knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving his hat above his grey head, oblivious of King Charles the Martyr's head, and all belonging to it!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Go therefore they must to that knoll, and through that gate; but the gate was locked.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was in the afternoon, and, as before, they had ridden out to their favorite knoll in the hills.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Some of the more observant of the crowd had glanced suspiciously at this advancing figure, but the majority had not observed him at all until he reined up his horse upon a knoll which overlooked the amphitheatre, and in a stentorian voice announced that he represented the Custos rotulorum of His Majesty’s county of Sussex, that he proclaimed this assembly to be gathered together for an illegal purpose, and that he was commissioned to disperse it by force, if necessary.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout loghouse fit to hold two score of people on a pinch and loopholed for musketry on either side.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Or if we are, Miss Price will be so good as to tell him that he will find us near that knoll: the grove of oak on the knoll.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And among the hills, on their favorite knoll, Martin and Ruth sat side by side, their heads bent over the same pages, he reading aloud from the love-sonnets of the woman who had loved Browning as it is given to few men to be loved.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I approached it; it was a road or a track: it led straight up to the light, which now beamed from a sort of knoll, amidst a clump of trees—firs, apparently, from what I could distinguish of the character of their forms and foliage through the gloom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
