Also 8 boorcole. [prob. ad. the Du. name boerenkool lit. ‘peasant’s cabbage.’] A loose or open-headed variety of the cabbage, cultivated under the name of Kale.
1712. Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull (1755), 24. His children … live upon salt herring, sowre crud, and borecole.
1813. C. Marshall, Garden., xv. (ed. 5), 222. Borecole or cale is a hardy green.
1850. Gard. Chron., 276. Borecole also called Kail.
