Definition of kail:

part of speech: noun

In Scot., the cabbage kind in general; greens; broth made of vegetables, & c.

Usage examples:

• " I couldn' make nobody hear at all by knocking," apologized Jonathan Kail for it was he at last; " and as't was raining out I opened the door. Thomas Hardy in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman".

• The winter was drawing on, but there would be the oats and the potatoes, with what kail the garden would yield them, and they had, he thought, plenty of peats. George MacDonald in "Warlock o' Glenwarlock".

• I broucht mysel' in fac' to that degree o' submission, 'at I gae mysel' no trouble more, but jist confint my ainergies to the raisin' o' the kail an' cabbage, the ingons an' pitawtas wantit aboot the place." George MacDonald in "Warlock o' Glenwarlock".

• " 'Tis because there's a new hand come among us," said Jonathan Kail Thomas Hardy in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman".