kail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Dinna scaud your mouth wi' other folk's kail.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
"What!" exclaimed the old lady, "d'ye think I dinna ken my ain groats among other folk's kail?"
From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous
And Antiphanes enumerates "mustard, and also scammony juice from Cyprus; cardamums from Miletus; onions from Samothrace; cabbages, kail, and assafœtida from Carthage; thyme from Hymettus, and marjoram from Tenedos."
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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