knoll
noun
a small, rounded hill or eminence; hillock.
knolling
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present participleof knoll.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, knolling away time.
From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby
"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend."
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.
From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern
Friend, a handsome house to lodge a, 139. --, knolling a departing, 62.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departing friend.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
