kailyard
English
Alternative forms
- kailyaird
- kaleyard
Noun
kailyard (plural kailyards)
- (Scotland) A kitchen garden.
- 1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II:
- There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.
- 1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II:
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