Sc. [f. lang LONG a. + kail KALE.] A variety of borecole; sometimes called ‘Scotch kale.’ Also attrib.

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1734.  Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 89. And there will be lang-kail and pottage And bannocks of barley-meal.

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1789.  Burns, Capt. Grose’s Peregrin., viii. The knife that nicket Abel’s craig … was a faulding jocteleg, Or lang-kail gullie.

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1820.  Scott, Monast., i. The ill-cultivated garden afforded ‘lang-cale,’ and the river gave salmon.

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