The hulks or lighters, on board of which felons are condemned to hard labour. Mr. Campbell was the first director of them.
See academy and floating academy.
·noun A place of training; a school. II. Academy ·noun A school or place of training in which some ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
or Pushing school A brothel. The Floating Academy; the lighters on board of which those persons are...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See campbell's academy. ...