Greeze, subs. (Westminster).—A crowd.
Greyers, subs. (Harrow).—Grey flannel trousers: worn by all the school not entitled to white Flannels (q.v.) at cricket.
Greyhound, subs. (Cambridge: obsolete).—A member of Clare College; a CLARIAN (q.v.).
1889. Whibley, Cap and Gown, xxviii. The members of Clare ... were called GRAYHOUNDS.
Grind, subs. (common).—(1) Study; reading for an examination. Also as a verb. (2) A plodding student. (3) Athletic sports in general: specifically, a training run. Also as verb = to teach; to instruct; to coach.
1856. Hughes, Tom Brown’s School-days, pt. II. ch. v. “Come along, boys,” cries East, always ready to leave the GRIND, as he called it. Ibid., ch. vii. “The thing to find out,” said Tom meditatively, “is how long one ought to GRIND at a sentence without looking at the crib.”
1872. Chambers’s Jour., April. Joe Rullock, the mighty gymnasiarch, the hero of a hundred GRINDS, the unwearied haunter of the palæstra, could never give the lie to his whole past life, and deny his own gymnastics.
1887. Chambers’s Jour., 14th May, p. 310. Smalls made just such a goal as was required, and the GRIND it entailed was frequently of no slight profit to him.
The Grind, subs. (Cambridge).—The ferry-boat at Chesterton. (Oxford) A diversion popular among the less athletic tutors and undergraduates, which consists in walking by the Banbury Road to the 2-1/2 mile stone, crossing to the Woodstock Road, which is here only a quarter of a mile distant, and so returning to Oxford, occasionally varying the proceeding by reversing the order of the walk. It is, however, probable that the introduction of golf has dealt a severe blow at the popularity of this innocent amusement. Also THE FIVE MILES GRIND.
’Varsity Grind (Oxford).—A steeplechase held at Stratton Audley.