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Kyloe

[ kahy-loh ]

kyloe

/ ˈ°ì²¹Éª±ôəʊ /

noun

  1. a breed of small long-horned long-haired beef cattle from NW Scotland
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of Kyloe1

1745–55; earlier Kiley, Kylie < Scots Gaelic gaidhealach Gaelic, Highland, equivalent to Gaidheal Highlander, Gael + -ach adj. suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of Kyloe1

C19: of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences

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Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail, The best man amongst them durst not touch her tail; She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow, Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all e'en now.

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Kyloe, kī′lÅ, n. one of the cattle of the Hebrides.

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Ayrshire or Kyloe cows are much esteemed in Scotland; and in England the improved breed of the long-horned cattle is highly prized in many dairy districts.

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A Northumberland gamekeeper of my father's has told me he knew it in the Kyloe Craggs and the Howick Woods, and remembered his father taking him to see their dog tried at a badger near Belford.

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But there is evidence that the present leading type of the breed was formed, in part, by an infusion of the blood of the Kyloe, or West-Highland breed.

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