knoll

1. (transitive) To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.transitive

2. (ambitransitive) To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.Examples: "If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church."; "For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]"; "[A]ll that night I heard / The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours."ambitransitive

3. (transitive) To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).Examples: "Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church."; "The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]"transitive