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CNOLL

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
CNOLL, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§335;
A KNOLL, hill-top, cop, summit; cacumen, vertex
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  • On ðam teóðan mónþe æteówodon ðæra munta cnollas

    decimo mense apparuerunt cacumina montium

    • Gen. 8, 5.

  • Garganus hine gemétte standan uppon ðam cnolle ðære heálícan dúne

    Garganus found him standing on the knoll of the high hill

    • Homl. Th. i. 502, 13.

  • Heá dúne, hyllas and cnollas

    high downs, hills and knolls

    • Exon. 18a;
    • Th. 45, 11;
    • Cri. 717.

  • On cnolle

    in vertice

    • Mone B. 927.

  • To ufeweardum ðam cnolle

    ad verticem montis

    • Jud. 16, 3.

  • He hit ne sette upon ðone héhstan cnoll

    he should not set it upon the highest hill-top

    • Bt. titl. xii; Fox xii. 15.

  • On ðam lytlan cnolle ðe Ermon hátte

    Hermonis a monte modico

    • Ps. Th. 41, 7.
Etymology
Prompt. knolle
Plat. knulle
Dut. knol m.
Kil. knolle
Ger. knolle, knollen, m.
M. H. Ger. knolle
Dan. knold, m. f.
Swed. knöl, m.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “CNOLL.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/6474.

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