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 Kipling, Rudyard

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 Paston, George

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

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard

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

"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