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

Wooden-spoon, subs. (Cambridge).—The student last on the list of mathematical honours. See Tripos, Gulf, Twelve Apostles, Wrangler, &c.

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Edinburgh & London

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Transcriber’s note:

Unusual and variable spellings, hyphenations, and capitalizations have been retained.

All upright instances of ‘Cf.’ italicized (Bicker, [The] Dark Walk, Poetry, Rhetoric)

Adsum, double quote inserted before ‘ADSUM,’ “Newcome, “ADSUM,” or”

Battlings, ‘67’ changed to ‘87,’ “1886-87. Dickens, Dictionary”

Bells, comma inserted following ‘Gabell,’ “be heard “Gabell,” or”