Bricks, subs. (Wellington).—A kind of pudding. [Also (var. dial.) = a kind of loaf.]
Bridge of Grunts (Cambridge).—See Isthmus of Suez.
Bring-on, subs. (The Leys).—A SIZING (q.v.), or extra in the way of food (as jam, tinned meat, &c.). [That is, what a boy “BRINGS ON” to his table, chiefly at tea.]
Broad (The), subs. (Oxford).—Broad Street.
Broad-sheet, subs. (Harrow).—The printed school list: issued after the TRIALS (q.v.).
Brock, subs. (Winchester).—To bully; to tease; to badger. [Brock, provincial in North and Hants = a badger, and baiting these animals was a school sport till 1870.] Hence BROCKSTER = a bully.
Brogues, subs. (Christ’s Hospital).—Breeches. [An old English survival: still dial. in Suffolk.]
Broker, subs. (Oxford).—A member of Pembroke College.
Brooke Hall (Charterhouse).—At Old Charterhouse the officers’ common room; at New Charterhouse the masters’ common room: it is the place to which impositions must be taken.
1900. Tod, Charterhouse, p. 94. In the seventeenth century schoolmasters had to be careful of their politics. Thus Master Robert Brooke, the fourth of the “schoolmasters,” is said to have refused to sign the Solemn League and Covenant, and to have flogged some of his boys for Parliamentary proclivities. He was ejected from his office in 1643. At the Restoration, though not fully restored, he was given “two chambers in cloisters and a pension of £30 a year.” After his death these two chambers were knocked into one and it became Brooke hall.