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

Derived Forms

• hedge-schoolmaster
  noun

Example Sentences

"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 Carleton, William

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 Lennox, P. J.

In my own case, its first development was noticed in the hedge-school which I attended.

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

At length it was ascertained that a master, another Connaught-man by the way, named O'Beirne, had opened a school—a hedge-school of course—at Pindramore.

From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

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 Kingsley, Charles