kail
Britishnoun
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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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Facing kail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan's intelligence operations.
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"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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Ox-hides from Libya's coasts, and juicy kail: The narrow sea, still vocal with the wail Of lost Leander's bride, the tunny sends, And our first meal with kipper'd salmon mends.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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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