How To Use Colewort In A Sentence
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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
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Kale, or kail, is the Scottish name for the plant, colewort in English, so you will observe the Scots name predominates.
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It is said that no sort of food causes so much thirst as cabbage, especially that called colewort.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Amongst herbs I have eaten I find gourds, cucumbers, coleworts, melons, disallowed, but especially cabbage.
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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
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Colewort can reach a height of 2.5m.
Times, Sunday Times
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The original of all the cabbage tribe is the wild plant sea-colewort, which is to be found wasting whatever sweetness it may have on the desert air, on many of the cliffs of the south coast of England.
The Book of Household Management
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All the varieties of the colewort tribe, including cabbage, cauliflower, brussels-sprouts, broccoli, and curly greens, have been celebrated from very ancient times for their curative virtues in pulmonary complaints.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
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Related to kale, which cruciferous vegetable derives its name from the word colewort?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was not until well into the Middle Ages that headed cabbages spread throughout Europe to supplement the staple ' colewort ' or kale.
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Close to the waterside a footpath led off downstream, and beside it the abbey's gardens lay neatly arrayed all along the rich plain, and three or four brothers were pricking out plants of cabbage and colewort.
The Rose Rent
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You are likewise to abstain from beans, from the preak, by some called the polyp, as also from coleworts, cabbage, and all other such like windy victuals, which may endanger the troubling of your brains and the dimming or casting a kind of mist over your animal spirits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The generic term Colewort is derived from _caulis_, a stalk, and _wourte_, as applied to all kinds of herbs that "do serve for the potte.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Other names for kale include the Dutch boerenkool (farmer's cabbage) and ‘collards’ (a corruption of colewort and the usual name in the USA) All derive from the Greek kaulos, meaning stem.
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“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore? — and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”
The Abbot
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Related to kale, which cruciferous vegetable derives its name from the word colewort?
Times, Sunday Times
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Markham suggests colewort - a sort of cabbage - boiled in ale, the ale to be drunk at every meal.
