A small schoolboy, esp. in a grammar school; = petty, n. 1a. Usually in plural. Obsolete.

A small boy at school; a boy in a lower form. Also in extended use. Usually in plural. Obsolete.

attributive as in breeching boy, breeching-scholar, a young scholar still subject to the birch, hence figurative a novice. (Cf. also whipping-boy, n.)

a boy in one of the lower year groups of a school, esp. a British public school; cf. lower school n.

A boy belonging to the lower or under-school.