*Turl* (The), _subs._ (Oxford).—Turl Street. [Formerly a narrow
opening through the city wall into the High Street.]
*Turn.* TO TURN UP, _verb. phr._ (Marlborough).—To chastise:
with cane, stick, or fives-bat.
TO BE TURNED, _verb. phr._ (Harrow and Dulwich).—To be
ploughed in a _vive voce_ translation lesson.
*Twank*, _verb_ (Durham).—To cane. _See_ LAM and YARK. [_Twank_
(East) = to give a smart slap with the flat of the hand.]
*Tweaker*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A catapult.
*Twelve.* AFTER TWELVE, _subs. phr._ (Eton).—From noon till two
P.M.
1861. WHYTE-MELVILLE, _Good for Nothing_, p. 39. I used to visit him
regularly in the dear old college from the AFTER TWELVE.
1864. _Eton School-days_, vi. I tell you plainly, if you are not in
Sixpenny AFTER TWELVE, I will do my best to give you a hiding wherever
I meet you.
1883. BRINSLEY-RICHARDS, _Seven Years at Eton_. Croppie, who
abominated all laws and delighted in transgressions, resolved to go to
the fair, and without difficulty he persuaded the Pug and me to join
him. One day AFTER TWELVE the three of us passed over Windsor Bridge
in the same condition as the “bold adventurers” alluded to in Gray’s
Ode.
THE TWELVE, _subs._ (Harrow).—_See_ quot., and Appendix.
1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 446. The working system of the
school has lately been slightly altered. Above the two sixth forms
there has been placed a Head-master’s “TWELVE,” with the object of
training the first TWELVE on the classical side for ’Varsity life.
They are only in school about three hours a day, but have to get
through a tough amount of work at their leisure.
*Twelve Apostles*, _subs._ 1. (Cambridge).—The last twelve in
the Mathematical Tripos.
1785. GROSE, _Vulg. Tongue_, s.v. PLUCK.... These unfortunate fellows
are designated by many opprobrious appellations, such as the TWELVE
APOSTLES, the Legion of Honour, Wise Men of the East, &c.