Schōōl'-mās'ter, n.
n. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor, or preceptor.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad,—a person less imposing,—in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The school-master is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Ld. Brougham.
Sense 2. One who, or that which, disciplines, instructs, and leads.
The law was our school-master, to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24.