Sc. and North. Eng. form of KNOLL, hillock, rising ground.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. iii. 37. From a hyll or a know To tham he callis.
a. 1585. Montgomerie, Flyting, 73. Many ȝeald ȝow hast thou cald ouer a know.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), II. 167. Riding over a Knough, I met with a Farmer’s Daughter.
1804. J. Grahame, Sabbath, 295. He roam’d O’er hill and dale, o’er broomy knowe.
1879. E. Waugh, Chimney Corner, 252. (Lancash. dial.) Till I geet at th’ top of a bit of a knowe.
1893. Stevenson, Catriona, xxx. 352. The path rose and came at last to the head of a knowe. [In E. D. D. from the six northern counties of England.]
b. Comb., as knowe-head, -top.
15[?]. Wife of Auchtermuchty, xiii. Then up he gat on a know heid, On hir to cry, on hir to schout.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xlv. I will just show mysell on the knowe-head.
Knowe, -en, pa. pple. of KNOW v.
