Crossword-Solution: KNURR 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But there is yet another way of planting alders after the Jersey manner, and as I receiv’d it from a most ingenious gentleman of that country, which is, by taking trunchions of two or three foot long, at the beginning of Winter, and to bind them in faggots, and place the ends of them in water ’till towards the Spring, by which season they will have contracted a swelling spire, or knurr about that part, which being set, does (like the gennet-moil apple-tree) never fail of growing and striking root.

KNURR, KNUR, nur, _n._ a knot in wood: a wooden ball.--KNUR AND SPELL, a game played with a ball (_knur_), trap (_spell_), and tripstick, in vogue chiefly in the north of England.

They danced in clogs there, clogs with soles of Welsh alder, and laaked at quoits and knurr and spell, and knew a bit about homing pigeons, not to speak of cocks, the game kind.

MANUAL OF SPORTING RULES, COMPRISING THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHENTICATED REVISED RULES GOVERNING Trap Shooting, Canine, Ratting, Badger Baiting, Cock Fighting, the Prize Ring, Wrestling, Running, Walking, Jumping, Knurr and Spell, La Crosse, Boating, Bagatelle, Archery, Rifle and Pistol Shooting, Shuffle Board, Shinny, Quoits, Skittles, Hand Ball, Rackets, Fly Casting, Swimming, Foot Ball, Pin Pool, Fifteen Ball Pool, Scottish Games, Ten Pins, Skating, Curling, etc.