hedge-school

British  

noun

1. Irish history a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter

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• hedge-schoolmaster
  noun

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hedge-school

"Ay," says Mat, changing his tone, and taking the cue from his friend, whose learning he dreaded, "it's just for argument's sake, a hedge-school; and, what is more, I scorn to be ashamed of it."

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

"Very well, my learned friend, Mr. Mat Kevanagh, isn't this precisely what is called a hedge-school?"

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Look at that B, and that G; their formae formativae never were begotten in a hedge-school.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

At Drumgooland, a neighbouring hamlet, he opened what is called in Ireland a public school; a sort of hedge-school for village children.

From Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

He was educated at a hedge-school, and on coming to man's estate, obtained a situation as steward to a neighbouring landowner.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston