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

Six-and-Six, subs. (Winchester).—Football: six a side. Cf. Twenty-Two and Twenty-Two. See Appendix.

Sixes, subs. (The Leys).—Football teams for competition—six a side. See Kid, and Appendix.

Six of ..., phr. (Harrow).—An order to the value of sixpence. Thus SIX OF SAUSAGES WITH (archaic) = sixpennyworth of sausages with potatoes.

Sixpenny, subs. (Eton).—A large field for football and cricket. See Playing-fields.

1864. Eton School-days, vi. I tell you plainly, if you are not in SIXPENNY after twelve, I will do my best to give you a hiding wherever I meet you.

Six-raps, subs. (Stonyhurst: recently obsolete).—A game consisting chiefly in rapping balls across the playground to be caught by others.

1887. Stonyhurst Mag., iii. 18, “Stonyhurst in the Fifties.” Six raps, it may be remarked, was in those days played with a miniature Stonyhurst-cricket (q.v.) ball.

Size, subs. (Cambridge).—An allowance of bread, &c., for a particular price; but see quots. Whence SIZINGS.

1592. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse [Works, ii. 68]. The Maister Butler of Pembrooke Hall, a farre better Scholler than thy selfe, (in my iudgement) and one that sheweth more discretion and gouernment in setting vp a SISE of Bread, than thou in all thy whole booke.

1605. Shakspeare, Lear, ii. 4. To bandy hasty words, to scant my SIZES.