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TAG—A Football term. When a player has kicked the ball well forward, and has followed it, if it was then kicked back again behind him by the other side, he was then obliged to return to his original position with his own side. If the ball had, in the meantime, been again kicked in front of him, before he regained his position, and he was to kick it, it would be considered unfair, and he would be said “to Tag.”
TARDY—When a boy was too late to answer “Sum,” names being called.
TEEJAY—To take an interest in, and protect any one. The boy protected was called a “Teejay.” Derived from the French, Protéger, to protect.
THICK--Stupid; very intimate. Used also as a substantive, thus a Dunce.
THOKE—To lie in bed late in the morning. As a substantive, the act of lying in bed late.
THOKE UPON ANYTHING—To dwell with satisfaction on a future pleasure.
THOKER—A thick piece of bread dipped in water, and then baked in the ashes.
TIN GLOVES—A new boy was fitted with a pair, by having the backs of his hands scored backwards and forwards two or three times with a “Hot End” (v. sup.) The supposed object of the ceremony was to enable the victim to handle “Hot Ends” with impunity.
TIN GLOVES.
TIZZY—A Sixpence.
TIZZY POOLE—A Fives ball; so called, because they cost sixpence, and were sold by the Head porter, whose name was Poole.
TOEFITIE—To secure the toe of a sleeper in a noose of string.
TOEFITIE.
TOE PAN—A large basin of red earthenware placed in each chamber, for washing the feet in.
TOE PAN BOILER—A tin vessel for boiling water, containing about three gallons.
TOLLY—A tallow candle.
TOTHER SCHOOL—Any school not a public school.
TOYS—Bureaux in Chambers and Commoner’s Hall. Each boy had one, at which he sat during
TOY TIME—The period between dinner time and evening Chapel.
TUB—A chest in Hall, into which the Dispars not taken by the boys were put.
TUB MESS—The table at which the Senior Præfects sat in Hall.
TU DOCES—A (Thou) Teachest.
TUG—Old, Stale.
TUGS—Stale News. A common remark when a boy related anything known previously to the hearer.
TUNDING—A thrashing with a ground-ash inflicted by a Præfect. When any grave offence had been committed, and it was administered by Præfect of Hall on the raised dais at one end of Hall, it was called a “Tunding on top of Hall.”
TURF—A part of Meads, almost exclusively kept for Præfects to play Cricket on, and for the matches.
TWENTY-TWO AND TWENTY-TWO—A game at Football, with Twenty-two on each side.
TWOSTER—A stick spirally indented by a stem of ivy having grown round it.