kaleyard

There was a man at Renfrew, where I came from, who had a kaleyard, and he was very much bothered with the depredations of a hootie craw-the corn crow-and. he got hold of a rat gin and put it out in his kale yard and covered it over and put some seed on top of it, and got his walking stick, and got behind the door to watch events.

Imperial Plans in Education 1919

Further they required a stream of water near them for fish and other purposes, and a kaleyard or level patch of ground for the growth of vegetables, as well as a forest -- using the word in the Roman sense, to mean stretches of woodland divided by open spaces -- to supply them with logs and with deer for venison, for there was no doubt that, as time went on, the monks, to use a modern phrase,

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor