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

Verb. 1. (Derby).—To send to bed at bed-time: used of Præpostors.

2. (Marlborough).—To chastise.

Turl (The), subs. (Oxford).—Turl Street. [Formerly a narrow opening through the city wall into the High Street.]

Turn. To turn up, verb. phr. (Marlborough).—To chastise: with cane, stick, or fives-bat.

To be turned, verb. phr. (Harrow and Dulwich).—To be ploughed in a vive voce translation lesson.

Twank, verb (Durham).—To cane. See Lam and Yark. [Twank (East) = to give a smart slap with the flat of the hand.]

Tweaker, subs. (Felsted: obsolete).—A catapult.

Twelve. After Twelve, subs. phr. (Eton).—From noon till two P.M.

1861. Whyte-Melville, Good for Nothing, p. 39. I used to visit him regularly in the dear old college from the AFTER TWELVE.

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.