Glossary : K
Kae: a jackdaw
Kail: kale: the colewort; cabbage; Scots'
broth
Kail-blade: the leaf of the colewort
Kail-gullie: a cabbage knife
Kail-runt: the stem of the colewort
Kail-whittle: a cabbage knife
Kail-yard: a kitchen garden
Kain: kane: rents in kind
Kame: a comb
Kebars: rafters
Kebbuck: a cheese; a kebbuck heel = the last crust
of a cheese
Keckle: to cackle: to giggle
Keek: look: glance
Keekin-glass: the looking-glass
Keel: red chalk
Kelpies: river demons
Ken: to know
Kenna: know not
Kennin: a very little (merely as much as can be perceived)
Kep: to catch
Ket: the fleece on a sheep's body
Key: quay
Kiaugh: anxiety
Kilt: to tuck up
Kimmer: a wench: a gossip; a wife
Kin': kind
King's-hood: the 2d stomach in a ruminant (equivocal
for the scrotum)
Kintra: country
Kirk: church
Kirn: a churn
Kirn: harvest home
Kirsen: to christen
Kist: chest: counter
Kitchen: to relish
Kittle: difficult: ticklish:
delicate: fickle
Kittle: to tickle
Kittlin: kitten
Kiutlin: cuddling
Knaggie: knobby
Knappin-hammers: hammers for breaking stones
Knowe: knoll
Knurl: knurlin: dwarf
Kye: cows
Kytes: bellies
Kythe: to show
