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kail, kale colewort, made the baron like kail to a pot, IV, 86, (Child #203 B) (Child #203 C) 13: cut him up. broth made of greens, especially of coleworts: II, 467, (Child #110 E) 41; III, 300, (Child #161 C) 12; 388, 3; IV, 500, 13. See kell.
kaily lips, I, 302, A (Child #33 A) 10: covered with kail, and so repulsive.
kaim, kame, keem comb.
kaivle II, 298 f., (Child #89 A) 3, 19: lot. See kavil.
kale See kail.
kame, keem comb.
kamen combing.
kane I, 353, (Child #39 H) (Child #39 I) 15; 356, 56: tribute (originally a duty in the form of a part of the produce, paid by an occupant of land to his superior).
kauk V, 116, (Child #280 A) (Child #279 app) 10: chalk.
kavil, kaivle, kevel, cavil I, 71, (Child #5 B) 36, 38: lot.
kay, key kine.
keach V, 123, (Child #281 A) (Child #281 B) 17: perturbation, shaking up.
kean v., V, 110, (Child #279 A) 4: ken.
kebars I, 332, F (Child #38 F) 6; II, 227 a: rafters.
kebbuck IV, 323, (Child #236 A) 5: cheese.
keckle-pin burnt like keckle-pin, II, 155, (Child #68 K) 38: that is, I suppose, like heckle-pin, the sound of the k being carried on from like. Mr. William Forbes, of Peterhead, suggests the following explanation: The pins used to hold the straw raips which hold down the thatch on cob or mud huts; being driven into the top of the walls close to the eaves, they are always dry and ready to burn. The mass of interlaced straw is called a hackle. Used all over East Aberdeenshire.
keeked, keekit I, 303, D (Child #33 D) 1; 304, E 3: peeped.
keel V, 116, (Child #280 A) (Child #279 app) 10: red chalk.
keem, kem, kemb, kame comb.
keen v., V, 238, 18; 278, 38: ken, know.
keen armour, II, 62, (Child #61 app) 10: no sense except for arms of offense (as in Old Eng.).
keen (of tying), II, 162, D (Child #69 D) 3: strong or hard.
keen, keene II, 45, (Child #59 A) 26; 46, 39; V, 192 f., (Child #305 A) 27, 57: bold, spak sharp and keene, III, 394, K (Child #173 K) 3: cuttingly, poignantly.
keep catch. See kep.
keep up V, 114, 12: keep under custody, safe from the hands of others, lock up. See kept up.
keep with, keepe with II, 411, (Child #101 C) 15; III, 36, (Child #116 app) 41: stay, live, with.
keepit a bower, II, 407, (Child #101 A) 8: frequented, lived in.
keepit IV, 215, A (Child #220 A) 2: heeded, observed.
keist, kiest, kest, kyst pret. of cast, I, 69, (Child #5 A) 46; 241, 3.
kell II, 264 f., (Child #83 A) 5, 12; 364, 30; V, 161, (Child #293 A) (Child #293 B) 7: a cap of network for women's hair.
kell lang kell, V, 110, (Child #279 A) 9, 10. See lang kell.
kelter, kelter-coat V, 54, (Child #271 B) 20: made of kelt, black and white wool mixed and not dyed. Dillon, Fairholt's Costume in England, where a kelter-coat is cited from a will. Kelt, cloth with the knap, generally of native black wool. Jamieson.
keltit IV, 493, 5: kelted, tucked.
kem, kemb comb.
kemp, kempe, kempy I, 301, (Child #33 A) 1, 302, 6, B i; 303, C 1, 9; 309, 3, 5; II, 53 f., (Child #60 A) 25, 31, 55; III, 447 a: champion, fighting-man (A.S. cempa). kemp o the ship, V, 151 f., F 2, 4, is no doubt a corruption.
kempery, kemperye II, 54 f., (Child #60 A) 54, 66, 68: company of fighting men (or, if adjective, fighting).
kempy See kemp.
ken I, 343, (Child #39 A) (Child #39 B) 42; 345, 41; 348, 21; III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 4: know. III, 266, (Child #157 A) 4: to make known.
kene, cawte and kene III, 296, (Child #161 A) 26: wise, shrewd, or, perhaps, brave.
kenna know not.
kep, keep, cap, cape catch, stop, intercept: II, 322, (Child #93 A) 21; 325, 21; 407, 13; 413, 6, 8; III, 125, (Child #123 B) 34; 245, 2; 246, E 2; 436, 5, 7; IV, 480 f., 17, 18, 19; V, 230, 10, 11. she keppit him (received him) on a penknife (as he leaned over to her), II, 147, (Child #68 C) 6. she keppit Lamkin, II, 335, M (Child #93 M) 7; V, 230 b, Y 10: encountered. he kepped the table, door, wi his knee, I, 476, J (Child #53 J) 5; 481, 42; II, 91, (Child #63 C) (Child #63 D) (Child #63 E) 26; 94, 18; 271, 17: took, struck, keppit, III, 246, D (Child #155 D) 2, is an obviously wrong reading, and should be kicked; cf. 243, 2; 245, 2; 246, B 2. kepd the stane wi her knee, II, 421, (Child #103 B) 29, is absurdly taken from other ballads (and from ball-playing). pret. kept, kepd, kepped, kepit, keppit. See cap.
kepe I, 329, 2: care for, value, kepe I be, III, 100, (Child #119 A) 80: care I to be.
keping IV, 313, (Child #235 A) (Child #235 B) 20: meeting. The meaning is that he went to meet (come should be came) the body which was lying at the gates. There was no procession towards him.
kepping keeping.
kept up IV, 287, (Child #231 C) (Child #231 D) 15: shut up. See keep up.
kerches kerchiefs.
kest, keste pret. of cast, III, 76 f., (Child #117 A) 421, 422. See keist.
kettrin IV, 84, (Child #203 A) 8: cateran, Highland marauder. See caterans.
kevel, kevil I, 74 f., (Child #5 C) (Child #5 D) 3, 36; 77, 4; 80, 4-6; II, 16, (Child #57 A) 2; 301, 1; IV, 394, C (Child #250 C) 1: lot. See kavil.
key kye.
keys rang the keys, IV, 430, (Child #261 A) 2: keys of her spinnet.
kickle III, 230, (Child #154 A) 59 (the actual reading): not easily managed, unsteady, Scot, kittle. (But perhaps we should read kick, since a verb would be expected.)
kiest, keist pret. of cast, I, 74, (Child #5 C) (Child #5 D) 2; 75, 36; 80, 4; 351, 44; IV, 32, (Child #194 B) (Child #194 C) 11.
kilt IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 3: a skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from the belly to the knees.
kilt, kelt tuck up: I, 341, (Child #39 A) 3, 17; 343 f., 3, 8, 16, 35; 369, 2; II, 92, (Child #63 E) 7; 461, 5; 462, 5; 471, 4. p.p. kilt, II, 423, (Child #103 C) 8; IV, 210, 7.
kin a' kin kind, II, 114, (Child #65 A) 2: a' kin, all kind, equivalent to every, na kin thing, I, 394, (Child #43 A) (Child #43 B) 10.
kin ken.
kind, kindly II, 319, (Child #92 B) 7; III, 266 f., I, 5, (Child #1 C) (Child #1 D) 21; 300, 26; IV, 501, 30: kindred, native, kindly cockward, I, 285, (Child #30 A) 24: natural, born, fool, kindly rest, V, 124, C (Child #281 C) 14: natural.
kine what kine a man, IV, 504, 27: kind (of).
king's felon, kynggis felon, kings ffelon III, 98, (Child #119 A) 21; 180, 16: traitor, or rebel, to the king.
kinnen III, 370, (Child #169 C) 4: coney, rabbit.
kintra country.
kipeng keeping.
kipple I, 333, (Child #38 G) 5; IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 6: couple, rafter.
kipple-roots I, 304, P 5: the ends of couples (rafters) that rest on the top of the wall. "In rude erections the couples were rough unhewn tree-stems, which were placed with their thickest, or root, ends on the walls, the smaller ends abutting at the ridge of the roof." J. Aiken.
kirking I, 371, (Child #41 C) 6, 12, 14: churching.
kirk-shot IV, 359, (Child #242 A) 10: the fishings on the water where nets are shot, belonging to, or adjacent to, the kirk.
kirk-style I, 441, (Child #49 D) (Child #49 E) 8-10; 498, 16, 24; IV, 183, (Child #215 H) 9, 11; 360, 16: the gate of the enclosure round a church, or, the stile in the church-yard wall.
kirk-toun II, 219, (Child #76 B) (Child #76 C) 13: village in which is a parish church.
kirkyard V, 299, 4: churchyard.
kirn n. and v., V, 115, (Child #279 app) 6: churn.
kirtle, kirtell, kyrtell part of a man's dress, perhaps waistcoat: III, 65, (Child #117 A) 194; 71, 299. name given to a variety of articles of female attire, explained as jacket, corsage or waist, upper petticoat, a loose upper garment, tunic or short mantle, etc. dress of silk worn under a gown, over a petticoat, I, 433, (Child #48 A) 9. gown, petticoat and kirtle, III, 273, (Child #157 G) 14. kirtle and gown, III, 215, (Child #149 A) 10; IV, 432, (Child #262 A) 7, 8.
kist chest, I, 15, A (Child #2 A) 3; B 3; 17, D 2; III, 189, (Child #142 A) (Child #142 B) 34; IV, 485, 19; V, 115, (Child #279 app) 5: coffin.
kithe a, III, 93, (Child #118 A) 36: of kith, of the same country, region, people, kith, kyth, and kin, II, 216, (Child #76 A) 6, 8; 252, 29; III, 93, (Child #118 A) 36.
kitt V, 240, 14: outfit, supply.
knabby IV, 262, (Child #226 E) 23: knobby, rough.
knack fingers (in sign of grief): IV, 418, (Child #257 A) 7; 435, 13; knak, V, 227, 5 (passage corrupted); knick, III, 455, E (Child #182 E) 1; knock, II, 312 f., (Child #91 A) (Child #91 B) 5, 6, 7: crack the finger-joints. (Elsewhere, wring, II, 315, D (Child #91 D) 7; 319, 17; III, 477, (Child #187 A) 4.) ladies crackt their fingers, II, 26, G (Child #54 A) (Child #54 B) 16.
knapped II, 134, (Child #66 E) 8, 13: knobbed, ornamented with balls or tassels. See naps, golden-knobbed, II, 133, D (Child #66 D) 6. (knob, sometimes a tassel to the cord of a mantle.)
knapscap, napskape IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 35; V, 251, 31: head-piece.
knaue III, 14, (Child #115 A) 16, 17; 60, 81; 94, 50; 127, 44 (play): servant. IV, 501, 37: person of servile or low rank.
knave-bairn I, 350, (Child #39 G) 20; II, 418, (Child #103 A) 23: male child, knave-boy, V, 235 b, after so.
kneene III, 362, 87: knees.
knell v. II, 189, (Child #73 E) 23: ring.
knet pret. of knit, III, 431, (Child #178 A) (Child #178 B) 17; IV, 31, B (Child #194 B) 6: knitted, knotted.
knicking fingers III, 455, E: making the finger-joints crack. See knack.
knight-bairn V, 236 f., 21, 28, 29: male child.
knip-knap V, 213, 6: a knock, tap. V, 124, C (Child #281 C) 15: to express the sound of cracking.
knobbed See knapped.
knock See knack.
knocking-stane I, 304, (Child #33 E) (Child #33 F) 10: stone mortar.
knoe See know.
knop III, 138, (Child #126 A) 9: (knap), blow.
knoppis knobs.
know, knowe, knoe II, 308 b; III, 464, (Child #185 A) 5; 466, 38; IV, 171, (Child #214 I) 4; 193, 1; 195, 1; 201, 10; 205, 22: hillock.
knowe-tap IV, 60, C b 6: top of a hill.
kod, kuod quoth.
koors I, 353, (Child #39 H) (Child #39 I) 15: turns.
koupd See couped.
kouthe II, 499 b: known.
kow V, 157, (Child #291 A) 11, 12: twig. See cow.
ky, kye, kyne III, 464, (Child #185 A) 6, 7; 465 f., 19, 62; IV, 7, 29-32; 84, (Child #203 A) 17, 18: cows.
kyrtell See kirtle.
kyst I, 241, (Child #22 A) 3: cast.
kyth (and kin), home, country, people. See kithe.
kythe II, 168, (Child #70 A) (Child #70 B) 10: be manifest, appear, pret. kythed, I, 117, (Child #9 E) 10: appeared.
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