1883. Trollope, What I Remember.... The words “flog” or “flogging,” it is to be observed, were never heard among us, in the mouth either of the masters or the boys. We were SCOURGED.
Scout, subs. (Oxford).—A College servant: combining the duties of valet, waiter, messenger, &c.
1750. The Student, i. 55. My SCOUT indeed is a very learned fellow.
1853. Bradley, Verdant Green, iii. Infatuated Mr. Green! If you could have foreseen that those spoons and forks would have soon passed—by a mysterious system of loss which undergraduate powers can never fathom—into the property of Mr. Robert Filcher, the excellent, though occasionally erratic, SCOUT of your beloved son ... you would have been content to have let your son and heir represent the ancestral wealth by any sham that would equally well have served his purpose!
1884. Julian Sturgis in Longmans’ Mag., v. 65. The old don went back to his chair, and ... thrust the bits into the waste-paper basket, as his “SCOUT” came in with a note.
Scrape out, verb (Winchester).—When a Præfect wished to go out of School, he SCRAPED with his foot till he got a nod from the Master.—Mansfield (c. 1840).
Scrub, verb (Christ’s Hospital).—To write fast: e.g. “SCRUB it down.” Also as subs. = handwriting. [Lat. scribere.] See Strive.
Scrubbing, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A flogging: four strokes at SCRUBBING-FORMS. See Scourge.
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 109. The ordinary punishment consisted of four cuts, and was called “A SCRUBBING.” The individual who was to be punished was told “to order his name,” which he did by going to the Ostiarius, and requesting him to do so; that officer accordingly, at the end of school time, would take his name to the Master, who would then call it out, and the victim had to kneel down at Senior row, while two Juniors laid bare the regulation space of his back. The first time a boy’s name was ordered, the punishment was remitted on his pleading “Primum tempus.” For a more serious breach of duty, a flogging of six cuts (a “Bibler”) was administered, in which case the culprit had to “order his name to the Bible-Clerk,” and that individual, with the help of Ostiarius, performed the office of Jack Ketch. If a boy was detected in a lie, or any very disgraceful proceeding—a rare occurrence, I am happy to say—he had to stand up in the centre of Junior row during the whole of the school time, immediately preceding the infliction of the flogging; this pillory process was called a “Bibler under the nail.” I have also heard, that for a very heinous offence, a boy might be punished in Sixth Chamber, in which case the number of stripes was not limited; but I never knew an instance of this.
1864. Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. xcv., p. 79. Underneath is the place of execution, where delinquents are BIBLED. Ibid., p. 72. It need hardly be said that it [the rod] is applied in the ordinary fashion: six cuts forming what is technically called a BIBLING—on which occasions the Bible-Clerk introduces the victim; four being the sum of a less terrible operation called a SCRUBBING.