释义 |
lang-kail Sc. [f. lang long a. + kail kale.] A variety of borecole; sometimes called ‘Scotch kale’. Also attrib.
1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 89 And there will be lang-kail and pottage And bannocks of barley-meal. 1789Burns Capt. Grose's Peregrin. viii, The knife that nicket Abel's craig..was a faulding jocteleg, Or lang-kail gullie. 1820Scott Monast. i, The ill-cultivated garden afforded ‘lang-cale’, and the river gave salmon. |