hedge-school
noun
Irish history a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
hedge-schoolmaster
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a word derived from
hedge-school.
Example Sentences
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O'Beirne, it is true, was an excellent specimen of the hedge-schoolmaster, but nothing at all to be compared to Frayne.
From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
The mistress of a dame-school can hear spelling-lessons; and any hedge-schoolmaster can drill boys in the multiplication-table.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
In the Irish-speaking portions of the country the hedge-schoolmaster was often also a poet who wrote mellifluous songs in Irish, which were sung throughout the entire district and sometimes earned him enduring fame.
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
Her friends were furious, her lovers nettled; 'Twas much as though the Lady Vere de Vere On some hedge-schoolmaster her heart had settled.
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson
What hedge-schoolmaster has scattered them so loosely and profusely over this lovely land?
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
