2. (Charterhouse).—A football sweater—tight-fitting, with the colours running round in horizontal lines. In 1863 football shirts were introduced in place of HASHERS.
Hat, subs. (Cambridge).—A gentleman commoner. [Who is permitted to wear a hat instead of the regulation mortar-board.] Also GOLD HATBAND.
1628. Earle, Microcosmographie, “Young Gentleman of the Universitie” (ed. Arber, 1868). His companion is ordinarily some stale fellow that has beene notorious for an ingle to GOLD HATBANDS, whom hee admires at first, afterwards scornes.
1803. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam. Hat Commoner; the son of a nobleman, who wears the gown of a Fellow Commoner with a HAT.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, ch. xxxii. I knew intimately all the HATS in the University.
1841. Lytton, Night and Morning, Bk. I. ch. i. He had certainly nourished the belief that some one of the HATS or tinsel gowns, i.e. young lords or fellow.
Hatch, subs. (Winchester).—A flood-gate. [Hatch = a flood-gate (Bailey); also var. dial. = a garden-gate, wicket-gate, or half-door.]
Hatch-thoke, subs. (Winchester).—A Founder’s Commemoration-day. [Thoke = to lie late in bed; an old custom being to lie in bed till breakfast on such occasions, names being called at HATCH in Commoners.]
Haul, verb (University).—To summon before the Proctor for misdemeanour. Whence HAULABLE, adj., used of those whose society authorities deem undesirable for the men: e.g. they’re HAULABLE = those caught with them will be proctorised.
1891. Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 89. At last they were caught trying to drive in through the big gate of John’s. Next day they were HAULED and sent down.