Sc. [f. lang LONG a. + kail KALE.] A variety of borecole; sometimes called Scotch kale. Also attrib.
1734. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 89. And there will be lang-kail and pottage And bannocks of barley-meal.
1789. Burns, Capt. Groses Peregrin., viii. The knife that nicket Abels craig was a faulding jocteleg, Or lang-kail gullie.
1820. Scott, Monast., i. The ill-cultivated garden afforded lang-cale, and the river gave salmon.