noun
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A way up a hill in the South Downs.
definition
Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
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Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
Examples of borstal in a Sentence
Borstal system seems to encourage the ' Daddy ' system as a way of maintaining order whilst Archer's style merely fuels resentment.
Borstal trainees were released at the outbreak of war and premises converted to other uses.
It was named after the former convict prison at Borstal, Kent, where the system was pioneered.
The Borstal scheme of a juvenile-adult reformatory has been to some extent planned on the institutions of Elmira reformatory in the state of New York and of Concord in Massachusetts (see Juvenile Offenders).
It is now passed at a public works prison; either at Aylesbury (females), Borstal, Dartmoor, Parkhurst or Portland.
At Borstal a line of forty intended to protect Chatham on the south and west have been erected by convicts; they have also built magazines at Chattenden on the left bank of the Medway.