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

Labyrinth (The), subs. (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A part of the Garden.

Lag, subs. (Harrow).—The last. The “lag of the school,” the last boy in Bill-order (q.v.) in the school.

1881. Pascoe, Every-day Life in our Public Schools. Every morning the LAG junior prepares and brings to hall the list.

Lage, subs. (University: obsolete).—To wash. [Cf. the old cant term lagge = a bundle of clothes for washing.]

Lamb’s-tails, subs. (The Leys).—A cake sold at the tuck-shop.

Landies, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—Gaiters. [From tradespeople—Landy and Currell—who supplied them.]

Land of Promises, subs. phr. (University).—See quot.

1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Land of Promises. The fair expectation cherished by a steady novice at Oxford.

Land of Sheepishness, subs. phr. (old University).—See quot.

1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Land of Sheepishness. Schoolboy’s bondage.