merels

There was a third empty place on the dais table, but Sabin neither came to dine nor arrived to play dice or merels in the hall after the meal had finished.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

His blue eyes were shrewd as he arranged the merels pieces.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

Annais looked quickly down at the merels board as if considering her strategy.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

Sabin had been playing a game of merels with one of the older squires but, as Annais arrived, the youth rose, stretched, nodded to Sabin and went off to attend to his duties.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

That she had wanted him to stay and play at merels, had wanted to watch his swift, supple fingers move upon the pieces.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

In the Border country, on the other hand, it is unlucky to tread on the graves of unbaptized children, and "he who steps on the grave of a stillborn or unbaptized child, or of one who has been overlaid by its nurse, subjects himself to the fatal disease of the grave-merels, or grave-scab."

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

The game was obviously a variant of merels, or ninemen’s morris, and probably a gift brought back from Normandy by Aliena’s father.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989