Hell-and-neck boy, subs. phr. (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—A venturesome boy who had frequently climbed the Kittle-nine-steps (q.v.).
Hell Hole and “Hell’s Gates,” subs. (Stonyhurst).—The name of some foundations of an old factory built on the Hodder.
High (The), subs. (Oxford).—High Street. Cf. The Broad, the Turl, the Corn, &c.
High, subs. (Christ’s Hospital).—A fruit-pie. See Low.
c. 1890. More Gleanings from The Blue, 92. Those greedy gluttons who during life had lain in wait for monied comrades, assailing them with importunate entreaties or even with open violence. Now they outstretched bony hands in vain for juicy “HIGHS,” which mocked and eluded their grasp; bottles of ginger-beer and cherries hovered above their skinny lips, as erst in “cherry-bob,” but never were they granted taste or sip of cool beverage or dainty morsel.
Higher Line, subs. (Stonyhurst).—The three highest classes.
High-master, subs. (St. Paul’s and Manchester Grammar).—The Head-master: at Manchester the term was used in the earliest statutes of the school (1515). See Sur-master.
Hills, subs. 1. (Winchester).—St. Catharine’s Hill. Hence, TO SHIRK HILLS = see quot.
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life, p. 28. Some of his principal duties were to take the boys “on to HILLS,” call names there, &c.
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester, 214. HILLS—St. Catherine’s Hill, a green hill about one mile and a half from College, about five hundred feet high, and near the top surrounded by a deep trench, the remains of an old Roman camp. The boys had to ascend this twice a day on whole Holidays and Remedies, once before breakfast, and again at half-past two. In the summer they also went out in the evening, but did not ascend Hills, but disported themselves below. These sorties were called “going on to HILLS,” the evening expedition being called “Underhills.” Ibid., iii. Ordinary offences of a trifling character, such as being late for Chapel or “SHIRKING HILLS” [i.e. evading going Hills], were punished by the infliction of an imposition—generally thirty lines of Virgil, English and Latin.