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ˈschool-keeper, ˈschoolkeeper
1. One who ‘keeps school’; applied to a school-master or mistress. So school-keeping.
1651Early Rec. Dedham, Mass. (1892) III. 191 The time of covenant in ye schoole keepeing being expired. 1829A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia (ed. 2) 193 Why is it that school⁓keeping is so disreputable an employment in our State? 1854C. M. Yonge Castle Builders v. 70 All we have ever had to do with school-keeping, was in that short visit to my sister. 1857H. Morley Gossip 183 After two years of school⁓keeping. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. iv. 126 God is too strong for City men and school-keepers. 1885[W. H. White] M. Rutherford's Deliv. iv, He was tired of school⁓keeping in England.
2. The caretaker of a school building.
1889Daily News 28 Nov. 3/6 A small room in the school⁓keeper's house. 1898Ibid. 10 Sept. 3/6 Making it requisite for the schoolkeepers to undertake the arduous work of carrying up the water for flushing these closets. |