kail

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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"Just a wee bit birsy, maybe, but these damned Irish have got his kail through the reek. — The Yeoman Adventurer, George W. Gough
On Scott endeavoring to conceal the authorship, the old dame protested, "D'ye think, sir, I dinna ken my ain groats in ither folk's kail?" — The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings, Mark Lemon
“Conjuror Fall, t’other side of Casterbridge, that they used to call ‘Wide-O’, was a very good man when I was a boy,” said Jonathan Kail. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy

kale, cole, borecole, colewort, Brassica oleracea acephala

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