- a variation of kale.
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
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 Thomas H. Huxley
A body's no broke while they hae a gude kail stock.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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