different between jailyard vs kailyard

jailyard

English

Alternative forms

  • gaolyard (rare)

Etymology

jail +? yard

Noun

jailyard (plural jailyards)

  1. A yard adjoining a prison.

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kailyard

English

Alternative forms

  • kailyaird
  • kaleyard

Etymology

kail +? yard

Noun

kailyard (plural kailyards)

  1. (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.

Derived terms

  • kailyarder
  • kailyardism
  • Kailyard school

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