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

Example Sentences

"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 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

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 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.

Even the "hedge-school" could not be set on foot.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.