A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
1All the leaf-buds active and open, as in the wild-cabbage, kail, etc.
2The kail grows brittle from the snow in my dank and cheerless garden.
3Scotch kail is best after there has been frost on it.
4Porridge and potatoes, and muslin kail, with a salt herring now and then.
5We could make a garden and haf plenty of kail, and potatoes, and apples.
6From Ceres they passed on over a level plain occasionally passing a kail or cottage.
7Will he eat up all the kail in England?
8O, the monks of Melrose, they made good, kail
9Then add some of the drained-off kail wafer and stir it smooth with the browned flour.
10They use much pottage made of coal-wort, which they call kail, sometimes broth of decorticated barley.
11We'll 'give them their kail through the reek.'
12Just a wee bit birsy, maybe, but these damned Irish have got his kail through the reek.
13And now, Mr. Brandon, I'll trouble you to move from the fireside; I must put out the kail.
14Dirty bow-kail thing that thou be'st!
15I was told at Aberdeen that the people learned from Cromwell's soldiers to make shoes and to plant kail.
16All the weans were out parading with napkins and kail-blades on sticks, rejoicing and triumphing in the glad tidings of victory.