knoll

Etymology 1

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”).

noun

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
   In the northern hemisphere, June 21 has the most daylight hours. Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll. 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135
2. (oceanography) A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
   Coordinate term: seamount

Etymology 2

Imitative, or variant of knell.

noun

1. A knell.

verb

1. (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
3. (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
   Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church. 1851, Charles Mackay, The Mormons, Or Latter-day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mohomet", page 206
   The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […] 1891, Thomas George Bonney, Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial, page 769

Etymology 3

Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.

verb

1. To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.