knell

/nɛl/

verb

The church bells knell at midnight.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

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 […]

意味（2）

(transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.

Let thy friends be as the dead in doom,

And build to them a final tomb;

Let the starred shade that nightly falls

Still celebrate their funerals,

And the bell of beetle and of bee

Knell their melodious memory.

意味（3）

(transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.