How To Use colewort In A Sentence
- The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage. Rob Roy
- Kale, or kail, is the Scottish name for the plant, colewort in English, so you will observe the Scots name predominates.
- It is said that no sort of food causes so much thirst as cabbage, especially that called colewort.
- In these beds, along with the tobacco, they generally sow kale, colewort, and cabbage seed, &c., at the same time. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; _i. e._, the stalk of a colewort or cabbage. Rob Roy — Volume 01
- In the meanwhile, Catherine continued to place upon the table the slender preparations for the meal of a recluse, which consisted almost entirely of colewort, boiled and served up in a wooden platter, having no better seasoning than a little salt, and no better accompaniment than some coarse barley-bread, in very moderate quantity. The Abbot
- Milnwood, placed on the table an immense charger of broth, thickened with oatmeal and colewort, in which ocean of liquid was indistinctly discovered, by close observers, two or three short ribs of lean mutton sailing to and fro. Old Mortality
- The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage. Rob Roy
- Amongst herbs I have eaten I find gourds, cucumbers, coleworts, melons, disallowed, but especially cabbage.
- For if it be said that there is enmity between the vine and colewort, because when planted near each other they do not thrive, the reason is obvious — that both of these plants are succulent and exhaust the ground, and thus one robs the other. The New Organon
