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