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

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.

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

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

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

"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