kalen.

Brit.

/keɪl/, U.S.

/keɪl/, Scottish English

/kel/

Forms: α. Middle English cal, Middle English–1800s cale, (Middle English–1500s Scottish cail (Old English, 1500s call, 1600s cayle), Middle English, 1700s– kale, (1500s–1600s Scottish kaill), 1600s– Scottish kail. β. Middle English kelle, 1500s kel, 1500s–1600s kele, keel(e, 1600s (Scottish) keil, 1600s–1800s keal(e, 1700s kell.

Etymology: Northern form of cole n.¹. The normal northern English spelling was cale (now rare), the Scots kaill, kail; the latter still common in Scots writers or with reference to Scotland, though kale is more frequent in general use. The β-forms are mainly southern spellings indicating the narrow Northern vowel.

a. A generic name for various edible plants of the genus Brassica; cole, colewort, cabbage; spec. the variety with wrinkled leaves not forming a compact head ( B. oleracea acephala), borecole.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun]

colec1000

kalea1340

colewortc1380

brassikc1420

brassica1832

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale

kalea1340

colewortc1380

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxvi. 2 As kale of gressis soen sall þai fall.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12523 He sent him to þe yerd..For to gedir þam sum cale.

1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 Cale, olus.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.vj Brassica is named..in englishe colewurtes, cole or keele.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 150 The Keel is to be found wild upon the Maritime Rocks.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. ix. 215 One of the sailors, who..had been sent to gather kale.

1813 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 5) xv. 222 Borecole or cale is a hardy green.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. viii. 104 Gardens, or yards..stored with gigantic plants of kale or colewort.

1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 148 When times were tolerably quiet, they..cultivated their oats and kail in peace.

b. With qualifying word: curled kale, curly kale, †frizzled kale, German kale or green kale, the ordinary borecole, with green leaves, very much curled; †great kale, lang kale, Scotch kale, a variety of borecole with less wrinkled leaves, of a purplish colour; wild kale, colewort. Also corn-kale, wild kale, field-mustard ( Sinapis arvensis); Indian kale (see quot. 1890). See also bow-kail n., sea-kale n.field kale: see the first element.

ΚΠ

a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 18 Brassica, great kail, unlocked. Brassica capitata alba, white locked kail. Brassica crispa, frizzled or curled kail. Brassica minor, smaller kail.

1731–59 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) Brassica Siberica, Siberian Borecole, called by some Scotch Kale.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. 564 The plant which in the West Indies is called Indian Kale and which served us for greens.

1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 58 Borecole, Scotch Kale, &c.

1890 G. Watt Dict. Econ. Products India IV. 565 Indian Kale, a name sometimes given to edible Aroids in those parts of the country where the leaves are eaten.

a. Broth in which Scotch kale or cabbage forms a principal ingredient; hence Scottish. Broth or soup made with various kinds of vegetables. Cf. water-kale n. at water n. Compounds 7As kale was long the chief element of dinner in Scotland, the word was often used to denote the meal itself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > vegetable soup

joutes1377

leek-pottagec1440

kalea1480

colea1500

nettle broth1652

spring pottage1661

minestra1673

spring soup1744

onion soup1747

shchi1824

Palestine soup1834

potato soup1834

tomato soup1840

julienne1841

gazpacho1845

printanier1867

minestrone1871

vichyssoise1939

pistou1979

a1480 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 85 Ther whas rostyd bakon, moullyde brede, nw soure alle, Whettestons and fyre~brondys choppyde in kelle.

c1547 Vox Populi i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 401 Nother malte nor meale,..mylke nor kele.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 206 The Monkis of Melros maid gude kaill On Frydayis quhen thay fastit.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Viande No man can make of ill acates good cale [Fr. vn bon potage].

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 21 When he brings in the messe with Keale, Beef, and Brewesse, what stomack in England could forbeare to call for flanks and briskets?

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. x. 242 Your ordinary Fare has been little else beside Brochan, Cale, [etc.].

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 31 I will be back here to my kail against ane o'clock.

1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1860) 1st Ser. v. 108 The old-fashioned easy way of asking a friend to dinner was to ask him if he would take his kail with the family.

1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. iii. 46 We'll sup our kail out o't together.

b. Scottish. Phrases: cauld kale het again, something stale served up again; e.g. an old sermon doing duty a second time. to give one his kale through the reek, to treat one in some unpleasant fashion, to let one ‘have it’.

ΚΠ

1660 in J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 80 We will take cold kail het again tomorrow.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 12 When my mother and him forgathered, they set till the sodgers, and I think they gae them their kale through the reek!

1823 J. Galt Entail III. xxx. 282 Theirs was a third marriage, a cauld-kail-het-again affair.

1840 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. ix. 214 He would have given the Dissenters their kale through the reek—a Scotch proverb.

3. North American slang. Money.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. 26 Kale, money, or wealth.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xiii. 172 You will get 111% on your kale in this fun-fest.

1926 Flynn's 16 Jan. 638/1 The kale is cut up an th' biggest corner goes to th' brains.

1927 Daily Express 23 Sept. 1 Enough ‘kale’ (prize-fighters’ name for money) has been received..to assure the promoters a profit of approximately £100,000.

1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 124/2 Kale, paper money.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. See also kailyard n. and calgarth n.

a. (In sense 1.)

kale-blade n.

ΚΠ

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 148 As caller as a kail-blade.

kale-castock n.

kale-knife n.

ΚΠ

1612 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 263 An assault with a Cayle knife.

kale-leaf n.

ΚΠ

1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 A Cale lefe.., caulis.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 412 Scant worth ane kaill leif.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxi. 258 The leaues of the same rosted in a Call leaffe.

kale-plant n.

ΚΠ

c1425 Langl.'s P. Pl. B. vi. 288 I haue percil and porettes and many kole-plantes [MS. Cambr. Dd. i. 17 cale-plantes].

kale-seed n.

ΚΠ

1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 269 A Description of the Method of raising Kail-seed, from burying the Blades in the Earth.

kale-seller n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit and vegetables

kale-seller1483

greengrocer1723

1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 A Cale seller, olitor.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 411 Johne Calder, keilsellar.

b. (In sense 2.)

kale-pot n.

ΚΠ

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Kale-pot, pottage-pot. North.

1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard xlv. 326 The iron bar whereon the kail-pot swung.

C2.

kale-bell n. the dinner-bell.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] > summons to meal

dinner bella1635

kale-bell1776

dinner call1799

tea-bell1836

breakfast-bell1842

warning bell1849

soupy1899

warning gong1938

1776 Watty & Madge in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 199 But hark!—the kail-bell rings, and I Maun gae link aff the pot.

1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress I. 249 The sexton rung the kale-bell. This bell was a sign..to the women-folk, who were left at home..to prepare dinner.

kale-brose n. oatmeal-brose made with the fat skimmings of meat-broth.

ΚΠ

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 312 When the quean threw sae muckle gude kail-brose scalding het about my lugs.

kale-gully n. a knife for cutting kale.

ΚΠ

1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 14 Arm'd wi a great Kale Gully.

kale-runt n.

ΚΠ

1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xvii, in Poems (new ed.) 61 Fient haet o't wad hae pierc'd the heart Of a kail-runt.

1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. v. 76 Pathways were always strewn with scraps of vegetation, notably ‘kail runts’, from which the leaves had been picked clean.

kale-stock n. the stout stem of a kale-plant, a castock:

ΚΠ

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 644/5 Hoc magudere, calstok.

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 350 Nat worth a soure calstocke.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 58 They..rooted out our kail stocks.

1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxviii. 245 Among the kail-stocks and cabbages in their yards.

kale-time n. dinner-time.

ΚΠ

1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 After kail-time.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 19 Mar. (1941) 35 We will hear more in detail when we can meet at Kale-time.

Thesaurus »

kale-turnip n. = kohlrabi n. ( Chambers's Encycl. 1890).

kale-wife n. a woman who sells kale or greens.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit and vegetables > woman

kale-wife1563

greengroceress1839

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 114 (margin) Ȝea, the cailwyfe seis ȝow heir, bund fute and hand.

1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 8 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. They began to misca' ane anither like kail-wives.

kale-worm n. the caterpillar of the cabbage butterfly; a caterpillar in general.

ΚΠ

1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 A Cale worme, eruca.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 295 It is but a puir crawling kail-worm after a'.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kale
释义	kalen. Brit. /keɪl/, U.S. /keɪl/, Scottish English /kel/ Forms: α. Middle English cal, Middle English–1800s cale, (Middle English–1500s Scottish cail (Old English, 1500s call, 1600s cayle), Middle English, 1700s– kale, (1500s–1600s Scottish kaill), 1600s– Scottish kail. β. Middle English kelle, 1500s kel, 1500s–1600s kele, keel(e, 1600s (Scottish) keil, 1600s–1800s keal(e, 1700s kell. Etymology: Northern form of cole n.¹. The normal northern English spelling was cale (now rare), the Scots kaill, kail; the latter still common in Scots writers or with reference to Scotland, though kale is more frequent in general use. The β-forms are mainly southern spellings indicating the narrow Northern vowel. 1. a. A generic name for various edible plants of the genus Brassica; cole, colewort, cabbage; spec. the variety with wrinkled leaves not forming a compact head ( B. oleracea acephala), borecole. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] colec1000 kalea1340 colewortc1380 brassikc1420 brassica1832 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale kalea1340 colewortc1380 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxxvi. 2 As kale of gressis soen sall þai fall. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12523 He sent him to þe yerd..For to gedir þam sum cale. 1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 Cale, olus. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.vj Brassica is named..in englishe colewurtes, cole or keele. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 150 The Keel is to be found wild upon the Maritime Rocks. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. ix. 215 One of the sailors, who..had been sent to gather kale. 1813 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 5) xv. 222 Borecole or cale is a hardy green. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. viii. 104 Gardens, or yards..stored with gigantic plants of kale or colewort. View more context for this quotation 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 148 When times were tolerably quiet, they..cultivated their oats and kail in peace. b. With qualifying word: curled kale, curly kale, †frizzled kale, German kale or green kale, the ordinary borecole, with green leaves, very much curled; †great kale, lang kale, Scotch kale, a variety of borecole with less wrinkled leaves, of a purplish colour; wild kale, colewort. Also corn-kale, wild kale, field-mustard ( Sinapis arvensis); Indian kale (see quot. 1890). See also bow-kail n., sea-kale n.field kale: see the first element. ΚΠ a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 18 Brassica, great kail, unlocked. Brassica capitata alba, white locked kail. Brassica crispa, frizzled or curled kail. Brassica minor, smaller kail. 1731–59 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) Brassica Siberica, Siberian Borecole, called by some Scotch Kale. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. 564 The plant which in the West Indies is called Indian Kale and which served us for greens. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 58 Borecole, Scotch Kale, &c. 1890 G. Watt Dict. Econ. Products India IV. 565 Indian Kale, a name sometimes given to edible Aroids in those parts of the country where the leaves are eaten. 2. a. Broth in which Scotch kale or cabbage forms a principal ingredient; hence Scottish. Broth or soup made with various kinds of vegetables. Cf. water-kale n. at water n. Compounds 7As kale was long the chief element of dinner in Scotland, the word was often used to denote the meal itself. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > vegetable soup joutes1377 leek-pottagec1440 kalea1480 colea1500 nettle broth1652 spring pottage1661 minestra1673 spring soup1744 onion soup1747 shchi1824 Palestine soup1834 potato soup1834 tomato soup1840 julienne1841 gazpacho1845 printanier1867 minestrone1871 vichyssoise1939 pistou1979 a1480 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 85 Ther whas rostyd bakon, moullyde brede, nw soure alle, Whettestons and fyre~brondys choppyde in kelle. c1547 Vox Populi i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 401 Nother malte nor meale,..mylke nor kele. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 206 The Monkis of Melros maid gude kaill On Frydayis quhen thay fastit. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Viande No man can make of ill acates good cale [Fr. vn bon potage]. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 21 When he brings in the messe with Keale, Beef, and Brewesse, what stomack in England could forbeare to call for flanks and briskets? 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. x. 242 Your ordinary Fare has been little else beside Brochan, Cale, [etc.]. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 31 I will be back here to my kail against ane o'clock. 1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1860) 1st Ser. v. 108 The old-fashioned easy way of asking a friend to dinner was to ask him if he would take his kail with the family. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. iii. 46 We'll sup our kail out o't together. b. Scottish. Phrases: cauld kale het again, something stale served up again; e.g. an old sermon doing duty a second time. to give one his kale through the reek, to treat one in some unpleasant fashion, to let one ‘have it’. ΚΠ 1660 in J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 80 We will take cold kail het again tomorrow. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 12 When my mother and him forgathered, they set till the sodgers, and I think they gae them their kale through the reek! 1823 J. Galt Entail III. xxx. 282 Theirs was a third marriage, a cauld-kail-het-again affair. 1840 C. Brontë Let. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1857) I. ix. 214 He would have given the Dissenters their kale through the reek—a Scotch proverb. 3. North American slang. Money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. 26 Kale, money, or wealth. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xiii. 172 You will get 111% on your kale in this fun-fest. 1926 Flynn's 16 Jan. 638/1 The kale is cut up an th' biggest corner goes to th' brains. 1927 Daily Express 23 Sept. 1 Enough ‘kale’ (prize-fighters’ name for money) has been received..to assure the promoters a profit of approximately £100,000. 1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 124/2 Kale, paper money. Compounds C1. General attributive. See also kailyard n. and calgarth n. a. (In sense 1.) kale-blade n. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 148 As caller as a kail-blade. kale-castock n. kale-knife n. ΚΠ 1612 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 263 An assault with a Cayle knife. kale-leaf n. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 A Cale lefe.., caulis. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 412 Scant worth ane kaill leif. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxi. 258 The leaues of the same rosted in a Call leaffe. kale-plant n. ΚΠ c1425 Langl.'s P. Pl. B. vi. 288 I haue percil and porettes and many kole-plantes [MS. Cambr. Dd. i. 17 cale-plantes]. kale-seed n. ΚΠ 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 269 A Description of the Method of raising Kail-seed, from burying the Blades in the Earth. kale-seller n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit and vegetables kale-seller1483 greengrocer1723 1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 A Cale seller, olitor. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 411 Johne Calder, keilsellar. b. (In sense 2.) kale-pot n. ΚΠ 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Kale-pot, pottage-pot. North. 1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard xlv. 326 The iron bar whereon the kail-pot swung. C2. kale-bell n. the dinner-bell. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] > summons to meal dinner bella1635 kale-bell1776 dinner call1799 tea-bell1836 breakfast-bell1842 warning bell1849 soupy1899 warning gong1938 1776 Watty & Madge in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 199 But hark!—the kail-bell rings, and I Maun gae link aff the pot. 1849 Lady Wilde tr. W. Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress I. 249 The sexton rung the kale-bell. This bell was a sign..to the women-folk, who were left at home..to prepare dinner. kale-brose n. oatmeal-brose made with the fat skimmings of meat-broth. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 312 When the quean threw sae muckle gude kail-brose scalding het about my lugs. kale-gully n. a knife for cutting kale. ΚΠ 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 14 Arm'd wi a great Kale Gully. kale-runt n. ΚΠ 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xvii, in Poems (new ed.) 61 Fient haet o't wad hae pierc'd the heart Of a kail-runt. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. v. 76 Pathways were always strewn with scraps of vegetation, notably ‘kail runts’, from which the leaves had been picked clean. kale-stock n. the stout stem of a kale-plant, a castock: ΚΠ c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 644/5 Hoc magudere, calstok. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 350 Nat worth a soure calstocke. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 58 They..rooted out our kail stocks. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxviii. 245 Among the kail-stocks and cabbages in their yards. kale-time n. dinner-time. ΚΠ 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 After kail-time. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 19 Mar. (1941) 35 We will hear more in detail when we can meet at Kale-time. Thesaurus » kale-turnip n. = kohlrabi n. ( Chambers's Encycl. 1890). kale-wife n. a woman who sells kale or greens. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit and vegetables > woman kale-wife1563 greengroceress1839 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 114 (margin) Ȝea, the cailwyfe seis ȝow heir, bund fute and hand. 1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 8 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. They began to misca' ane anither like kail-wives. kale-worm n. the caterpillar of the cabbage butterfly; a caterpillar in general. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 51/2 A Cale worme, eruca. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 295 It is but a puir crawling kail-worm after a'. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1340
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