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knoll (NOHL) - n., a small rounded hill; hillock.
Largely British usage, but not entirely -- knowe is the Scottish version. (It's also an obsolete variant of knell, as in ring a bell, but we'll ignore that.) The word implies being disconnected from other hills. At the smaller size may blur into a mound, while the larger ones blur into a butte or even a small mesa. Dates back to Old English, when it was dressed up as cnoll, cognate with words in several Germanic language with a general sense of summit and lumpy thing.
---L.
Largely British usage, but not entirely -- knowe is the Scottish version. (It's also an obsolete variant of knell, as in ring a bell, but we'll ignore that.) The word implies being disconnected from other hills. At the smaller size may blur into a mound, while the larger ones blur into a butte or even a small mesa. Dates back to Old English, when it was dressed up as cnoll, cognate with words in several Germanic language with a general sense of summit and lumpy thing.
---L.
