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  • verb Present participle of knoll.

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Examples

  • Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, knolling away time.

    Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

  • Seventy-three bells in chromatic diapason -- with their tinkling, ringing, tolling, knolling peal!

    Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • And now, again, the clock of the Old South threw its voice of ages on the breeze, knolling the hourly knell of the Past, crying out far and wide through the multitudinous city, and filling our ears, as we sat in the dusky chamber, with its reverberating depth of tone.

    Old Esther Dudley 1839

  • And now, again, the clock of the Old South threw its voice of ages on the breeze, knolling the hourly knell of the Past, crying out far and wide through the multitudinous city, and filling our ears, as we sat in the dusky chamber, with its reverberating depth of tone.

    Legends of the Province House 1837

  • Long did it proceed unanswered, till the knolling of a bell stole in among the intervals of her words, like a clang that had travelled far over valley and rising ground, and was just ready to die in the air.

    The Hollow of the Three Hills 1837

  • Stronger it grew and sadder, and deepened into the tone of a death bell, knolling dolefully from some ivy-mantled tower, and bearing tidings of mortality and woe to the cottage, to the hall, and to the solitary wayfarer that all might weep for the doom appointed in turn to them.

    The Hollow of the Three Hills 1837

  • Long did it proceed unanswered, till the knolling of

    Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • And now, again, the clock of the Old South threw its voice of ages on the breeze, knolling the hourly knell of the past, crying out far and wide through the multitudinous city, and filling our ears, as we sat in the dusky chamber, with its reverberating depth of tone.

    Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Stronger it grew, and sadder, and deepened into the tone of a death-bell, knolling dolefully from some ivy-mantled tower and bearing tidings of mortality and woe to the cottage, to the hall and to the solitary wayfarer, that all might weep for the doom appointed in turn to them.

    Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Enter "knolling," a totally different organizational method born from the studio practices of artists, designers, and DIYers that involves laying out related objects—paint pens and ink markers, wrenches and chisels, metal chains of all sizes—in a precise but simultaneously stylish way, intended to streamline workflow.

    The Life-Changing Magic of “Knolling” Tyler Watamanuk 2023

  • In 1987, Andrew Kromelow was working as a custodian in Frank Gehry’s California studio when he began to arrange his tools at right angles. In tribute to the Florence Knoll furniture he admired, Kromelow called this practice ‘knolling.’

    What Is Lifestyle? Daisy Alioto 2023

  • Knolling is the process of arranging related objects in parallel or 90-degree angles as a method of organization.

    Knolling - EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki 2020

  • The word ‘knolling’, which literally means organizing objects at right angles, was first used in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry’s furniture fabrication shop. Kromelow used to arrange his displaced tools at right angles on all surfaces, and called this routine knolling, because the tools were arranged in right angles — similar to Knoll furniture.

    The History of Knolling — Our Favorite Instagram Trend Lyst 2018

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