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• Kyloe
  Kyloe

  noun

  West Highland.
• kyloe
  kyloe

  noun

  a breed of small long-horned long-haired beef cattle from NW Scotland

Kyloe

American  

[kahy-loh] / ˈkaɪ loʊ /

noun

1. West Highland.

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kyloe British  

/ ˈkaɪləʊ /

noun

1. a breed of small long-horned long-haired beef cattle from NW Scotland

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Etymology

Origin of Kyloe

1745–55; earlier Kiley, Kylie < Scots Gaelic gaidhealach Gaelic, Highland, equivalent to Gaidheal Highlander, Gael + -ach adj. suffix

Example Sentences

So far from the character here given of the horns being confined to those white cattle, it is precisely the description of the horns of the Kyloe oxen, or black cattle.

From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by Vasey, George

Indeed so great is the similarity, that the Kyloe appears to be only a black variety of the Chillingham Ox, and the Chillingham Ox only a white variety of the Kyloe.

From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by Vasey, George

At Kyloe, in Northumberland, the intellectual defects of Henry Watson have, like the naughtiness of Manne, secured him a measure of fame.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

In size the Manilla Buffalo is about equal to the Kyloe Ox.

From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by Vasey, George

Kyloe, kī′lō, n. one of the cattle of the Hebrides.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various