hedge-school

British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• hedge-schoolmaster
  noun

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hedge-school

Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B.A.'s of the University, who compete for the Championship belt.

From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

"You talk with contempt of a hedge-school," replied the other master.

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

The hedge-school in its most elemental state was an open-air daily assemblage of youths in pursuit of knowledge.

From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox

A hedge-school!" replied Mat, highly offended; "my seminary 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