e/Barring out

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has gloss	eng: Barring out is a custom, formerly common in English schools, of barring the master from the school premises. A typical example of this practice was at the school in Bromfield, Cumbria, where, William Hutchinson says, "it was the custom, time out of mind, for the scholars, at Fastings Even (the beginning of Lent) to depose and exclude the master from the school for three days." During this period the school doors were barricaded and the boys armed with mock weapons. If the masters attempts to re-enter were successful, extra tasks were inflicted as a penalty, and willingly performed by the boys. On the third day terms of capitulation, usually in Latin verse, were signed, and these always conceded the immediate right to indulge in football and a cockfight. The custom was long retained at Eton College and figures in many school stories (i.e.
lexicalization	eng: Barring out
instance of	c/School traditions