Common
A game played with a ball and crooked stick (cut from a tree or hedge), with a crook at the end (same game as “Hurl”).—Dublin (Mrs. Lincoln).
Mr. Patterson (Antrim and Down Glossary) mentions this as “[Hockey];” the same as “[Shinney].” “Called in some districts,” he adds, “‘Comun’ and ‘Kamman,’ from the Irish name for the game.”
Conkers
The same game as “[Cogger].” The game is more generally called “playin at sneel-shells.”—Ross and Stead’s Holderness Glossary.
Conquerors or Conkers
I.
Cobbly co!
My first blow!
Put down your black hat,
And let me have first smack!
—Burne’s Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 531.
II.