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1. The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
   - knoll [archaic]

1. Ring as in announcing death
   - knoll [archaic]
    
2. Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
   "knell the bells";
   - ring, knoll [archaic]

Derived forms: knelled, knells, knelling

Type of: bell, peal, ring, sound, toll

Encyclopedia: Knell, Gary