Obs. [f. SOUL sb. + KNELL sb.] The knell rung or tolled at or after the death of a person. Also fig.
a. 1300. Vox & Wolf, 251, in Hazl., E. P. P., I. 66. Thi soul-cnul ich wile do ringe, And masse for thine soule singe.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 5796. Thei myȝt haue rongen here soule-knylle…. Thei hadde dyed for-sothe both, Ne hadde y-come Ayax.
1515. Scottish Field, 409, in Percy’s Folio MS., I. 232. The King of his kindnesse … saith, ‘I will sing him a sowle knell with the sound of my gunnes.’
1575. Gascoigne, Posies, Ep. Yng. Gent., Wks. 1907, I. 11. That the Soulknill of M. Edwards was also written in extremitie of sicknesse?
So † Soul-knoll. Obs.–1
c. 1500. Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees), 377. The sawll knoll, vj d.
