Nine men's morris

<p>Nine men's morris, a sort of game played with stones on figures cut in the green turf' Morris' may be a corruption of merrils [Fr. merelles]. 'Lejeu des merelles, the boyish game called merrils, or "five penny morris," played here most commonly with stones, but in France with pawns, ...and termed merelles.'—Cotgrave, Fr. Dic.</p>