Thank you for your answers, but what is a knell?

Answer 1

knell
the tolling of a bell announcing a death or funeral.

Answer 2

knell \NEL\, verb:
1. The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.

intransitive verb:
1. To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
-- Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The Bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a Knell, That summons thee to Heaven, or to Hell.
-- Shakespeare, Macbeth

All the morning the funeral knell has been tolling.
-- Besant & Rice, The Chaplain of the Fleet

Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.
-- Fletcher, The Spanish Curate

Answer 3

noun (plural knells)

Definition:

1. slow bell ring: the sound of a bell rung slowly, associated with solemnity or mourning, used to announce a death or funeral


2. ominous signal: something that signals death, disaster, or the end of something (

Answer 4

I wish i knew

Answer 5

I thought it was hairlip for ... hell.