Brewer's: Barring-out

A practice of barring the master out of the schoolroom in order to dictate terms to him. It was once common, but is now numbered with past customs. Miss Edgeworth has a tale so called.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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