Definition of "knel" []

• A simplified spelling of knell. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "According to the Wall Street crowd, this 4.6% tax hike on adjusted gross incomes over $250,000 will sound the death knel ..."
• "According to the Wall Street crowd, this 4.6% tax hike on adjusted gross incomes over $250,000 will sound the death knel ... digg"
• "This seemed to be the knel of death, and it occurred to him, that a dying person was approaching to receive the last sacrament; when he head remotely a warbling of female voices, mingling with the deeper tones of the monks, and with the hollow note of the bell, as it struck at intervals."