Definition of "writing-master" [writing-master]

• One who teaches the art of penmanship. (noun)
• The yellow bunting, Emberiza citrinella: so named from the irregularly scribbled lines on its eggs. Also called scribbling or writing lark, for the same reason. See cut under yellowhammer. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "V — — herself, her friendship for this strange French tutor and writing-master who never had any pupils having been observed by many who slightly knew her."
• "Once more she was a fresh-cheeked lass of eighteen; she was at evening church, and the hectic writing-master and she were quavering out of the same psalm-book."
• "“Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs)."