- a variation of kale.
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
"My life is all sin," she would say, "if it were but to peel the bark off a kail castock and eat, I sin in the doing of it!"
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)
I remember that, not long after the publication of the Vestiges, a shrewd and sarcastic countryman of the author defined it as "cauld kail made het again."
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.
But anon a light cloud passed over his visage, and I heard him mutter to himself in the Scottish dialect, "Beef and pudding! 'tis cauld kail for Fraser the morn."
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
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