PULPITEERS—In Cloister time, Sixth Book and Senior Part went up to Books together, and were so called.
Q.
QUARTER OF PAPER—A quarter of a sheet of foolscap, on which the Prose and Verse tasks were always written.
QUILL—To endeavour to curry favour with any one.
R.
RABBITER—A blow on the neck with the side of the hand, similar to the coup de grâce ordinarily given by a keeper to put a rabbit out of its misery.
RACK—Part of a neck of mutton.
RAMROD, RAYMONDER—Names given to a ball bowled all along the ground.
READER—An office in the gift of every Præfect in senior Fardel, which excused the recipient from watching out at Cricket. His business was to read out aloud the translation of any book his Master was cramming for Election examination.
READING SHELF—A shelf with a drawer fixed inside the head of a boy’s bed, on which to place a candle for nocturnal studies.