KNURR (Mir) AND SPELL (I,-nnr, nun, ODutch knorre, Dutch knot., :MUG. knorrc. Ger. K sorren, knob, and spell, from Dutch spil, spin dle). A game which originated on the moors of Yorkshire, in England. but has since spread throughout the north of England and many new localities. It is practically a development of the familiar trap, bat, and ball, and is played with a pommel or cluh, and a knurl- or ball, which is me chanically released from the spell or trap by a spring, somewhat after the manner of the shoot• en's clay pigeon. Each player plays his own game. without interferenee, and any number can enter a competition. 'The knurr is a boxwood or porce lain hall, one and one-half inches in diameter. it is placed on the spell or trap by the player, who. by means of a thumb-screw, adjusts the spring of the trap according to the velocity he wants tlte ball released at. He then releases it and hits
the hall on the rise with his pommel, a stick tor stout vane varying from four to five feet in length. It has a flat, harthyood, oblong-square end. The upper end of the pommel, which the player grasps with both hands, is bound with waxed thread. like the handle of a cricket-bat, and the blow is made by striking the hall with all possible force. A successful hit 1611 drive the ball about 200 yards: and the longest hit. or series of hits, wins. On a large moor, and where the game is general, the ground is marked out with wooden pins driven in every 20 yards. In matches emit player takes his own knurl's and pommels and has five rises of the hall to a game. The 'stroke' is made by a full `swing' round the head, not unlike the 'drive' at golf.