kye
a private Korean-American banking club to which members pay contributions and from which they may take out loans, usually to start small businesses.
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How to use kye in a sentence
But if she's gaun to look after the kye at St. Leonard's, that's another story; to be sure they maun be sorted.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, Illustrated | Sir Walter ScottThe kye were milked on the edge of the wood to give the horses stalling-room in their places.
Lochinvar | S. R. Crockett"This is worth a' the kye frae Achnasheen to Glen Urquhart," he cried.
Lochinvar | S. R. CrockettThe kye crouched, with misty nostrils laid low to the damp grass, rough with tangled gale.
Pharais and The Mountain Lovers | Fiona MacleodInstinct led the kye to the sunlight, for all living things have their joy through the eyes.
Pharais and The Mountain Lovers | Fiona Macleod
British Dictionary definitions for kye
/ (kaɪ) /
(functioning as plural) a Scottish and Northern English variant of kine
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