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

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

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 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 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 William Carleton

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