The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

1870. Traill, Saturday Songs, p. 22. It’s go and go over the left, It’s go WITH A HOOK AT THE END.

Horse-box, subs. (The Leys).—A cubicle or recess in dormitory: about 5 or 6 feet high. Whence TO DO TEN HORSE-BOXES = to perform “Sinking-and-rising exercise” on the same.

Hot, subs. (Winchester).—1. A mellay at football. 2. A crowd. Hence to HOT UP (or DOWN) = to crowd; to mob.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester, 215. In Twenty-two and Twenty-two (q.v.) when the ball went out of bounds, it was brought in and placed between the two sides, who all clustered up close round, with their heads down, each party, by weight and kicking, trying to force the ball through the other.

1878. Adams, Wykehamica, p. 367. It would be replaced and a fresh HOT formed.

Hot-end, subs. (Winchester).—A half-burned faggot stick with one end red-hot.

Hots, subs. 1. (Felsted: obsolete).—Tarts; pastry, &c.

2. (Felsted).—Money: specifically “coppers.”

Whence TRAV-HOTS = travelling money.

1893. Felstedian, Mar., p. 20. I made two brackets in the workshop, they liked them awfully; I meant to get them something decent, but I hadn’t got any HOTS.