scholemaster

English

Noun

scholemaster (plural scholemasters)

1. Obsolete spelling of schoolmaster.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:

     For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.