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
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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.
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She gaed oot to him wi' a wee drap kail broth.
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)
Time tries a', as winter tries the kail.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
I tempit him wi’ kail and meat, but he wad tak naething, and keepit me frae feedin’ the beast, and he was aye gur gurrin’, and grup gruppin’ me by the legs.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
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