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▪ I. kyle1 Now dial.|kaɪl|
Also 4–5 kylle, 5 kile, 7 keyll.
[a. ON. kýli boil, abscess; prob. related to kúla ball, knob.]
A sore, ulcer, boil.
(Wrongly rendered by Levins, through some confusion.)
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 2995 Som, for envy, sal haf in þair lyms, Als kylles and felouns and apostyms. 14..Rel. Ant. I. 53 A gude oyntment for kyles, woundes [etc.]. 14..MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 lf. 85 (Halliw.) Thai fare as dos a rotyn kile, That rotys and warkys sore. 1483Cath. Angl. 202/2 A Kyle, vlcus, vlcerosus. 1570Levins Manip. 130 A Kyle, bilis. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 314 To breake a botch, byle, or keyll, seethe the roots in water. 1876Whitby Gloss., Kyles, boils on the flesh.
▪ II. kyle2 Sc.|kaɪl|
[a. Gael. caol (kəːl), gen. caoil |kəː(j)l| ‘narrow strait or sound’, n. to caol narrow.]
A narrow channel between two islands, or an island and the mainland (in the west of Scotland); a sound, a strait.
1549D. Monro in P. H. Brown Scot. bef. 1700 (1893) 247 Ane right dangerous kyle or stream. 1703Martin West. Isl. 205 The Horses and Cows..swim to the Main Land [from Skye] over one of the Ferries or Sounds called Kyles. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 61 Outmost Lewis, Haco, and Skye, with winding kyles. 1900Mackenzie Guide Inverness 81 The narrow kyle between Rona and Raasay. Mod. The steamer passes through the Kyles of Bute to the Crinan Canal.
▪ III. kyle3 dial. rare.|kaɪl|
[= LG. kîl, G. keil (MHG. kîl), Da. kile, Sw. kil ‘wedge’: the precise source is not clear.]
A small iron wedge used to fasten the head of a pick, hammer, etc., on the shaft.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. E j b, When the Miner haums a Pick..and when he has put in his hard Wood-Wedges and Iron Kyles [etc.]. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Kyle, a wedge. ‘Is thor a kyle i' this mell, Bob?’ |