Knuckerhole
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Knuckerhole is the name given in the Sussex dialect for a kind of spring that rise in the flat lands to the south of the South Downs, for example at Lyminster, Lancing, Shoreham and Worthing. They take the form of pools often 20 feet across and legend has it that they are bottomless and the abode of dragons known as Knuckers. The water welling up in them is constant in temperature, cold in summer but never freezing in winter. In a frost, being warmer than the air, they give off vapours.
The term "Knuckerhole" is used in the PBS Kids show "Dragon Tales".
The word knucker is almost certainly a survival of the Old English word nicor 'water monster, sprite'.
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