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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Maginn was a wit, Mahony was the hedge-schoolmaster in excelsis, and Carleton was the first realist in Irish peasant fiction.
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
In our gallery of types we must not forget the character whom English writers contemptuously called the "hedge-schoolmaster."
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
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
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
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
