From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishknollknoll /nəʊl $ noʊl/ noun [countable] DNa small round hill
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knoll• On 15, he was 50 feet short of the pin on his drive and stuck behind a knoll.• Mike came out and stood in the colonnade on the other side of the grassy knoll.• The mood somber on the grassy knolls, I stood, feeling like an observer, detached from the group, defeated.• With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements, I loped up the grassy knoll to the court.• On a prominent knoll near the end of the path is a distinctive cairn built in Robinson's memory.• Raised knolls give picnickers panoramic views.• Hillmarden House was situated on a small knoll just outside the village of Hillmarden itself.• He pulled out his wedge, sailed the ball over the knoll and it rolled into the cup.Origin knoll Old English cnoll 