different between kailyard vs sailyard
kailyard
English
Alternative forms
- kailyaird
- kaleyard
Etymology
kail +? yard
Noun
kailyard (plural kailyards)
- (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.
- 1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II:
Derived terms
- kailyarder
- kailyardism
- Kailyard school
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sailyard
English
Etymology
sail +? yard
Noun
sailyard (plural sailyards)
- (nautical) A yard to which the sails of a ship are bent.
- (obsolete) One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached.
- (entomology, obsolete) An antenna of an insect.
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “sailyard”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
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