Definitions
make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
Word origin
From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”).
Used in a sentence
“I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee, And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing, Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]”
““[…] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!””
“The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling For the year”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tolling sound”5 letters
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