kail
Britishnoun
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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
The two gentlemen sat and supped their kail, in which a pullet had been boiled, with quite remarkable relish.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Het kail cauld, nine days auld, spell ye that in four letters.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
Kail, colewort; broth is commonly termed kail; but, properly speaking, it is not kail until the second day.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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