- a variation of kale.
kail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Facing kail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan's intelligence operations.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few busy themselves in the arts hut, painting or carving elaborate wooden musical instruments like the take and the kail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Confound the beast!—keep her till't, Jock, keep her till't, lad, till we see what kind o' kail she maks.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Thus, Skr. kṛta-s, Pr. kaa-u, ka-ill-u, B. kail, instead of kar-al.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
So while the lad sat there in prison waiting to be hanged, one of the serving-men came out by night and stole kail in the garden of the old hunks, and the lad saw him.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by P. Chr. Asbj?rnsen
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