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Kail   Listen
noun
Kail  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
2.
Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables. (OE. or Scot.)
3.
A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. (Scot.)
Kail yard, a kitchen garden. (Scot.)





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"Kail" Quotes from Famous Books



... height of about 2 ft., with close-set, large thick, plain leaves of a light red or purplish hue. The lower leaves are stripped off for use as the plants grow up, and used for the preparation of broth or "Scotch kail," a dish at one time in great repute in the north-eastern districts of Scotland. A very remarkable variety of open-leaved cabbage is cultivated in the Channel Islands under the name of the Jersey or branching cabbage. It ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various
... we chasten'd him therefore, Thou kens how he bred sic a splore[226], As set the warld in a roar O' laughin' at us,— Curse Thou his basket and his store, Kail ...
— English Satires • Various
... into the close rushed one of the fisherwives, followed by the factor. He had found a place on the eastern side of the village, where, jumping a low earth wail, he got into a little back yard, and was trampling over its few stocks of kail, and its one dusty miller and double daisy, when the woman to whose cottage it belonged caught sight of him through the window, and running out fell to abusing him in no measured language. He rode at her in his rage, and she fled shrieking into ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald


Words linked to "Kail" :   collard greens, genus Brassica, collards, Brassica oleracea acephala, chou, cruciferous plant, Brassica


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