knoll

knoll /nəʊl $ noʊl/ noun [countableC]

DNa small round hill 土墩，小圆丘

Examples from the Corpus

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

Chinese

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