Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scottish weight of straw, from 14 to 16 stone tron.
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Examples
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Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi 'a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle, and a sleep among the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
The Waverley 1877
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Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi 'a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle, and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times -- the mair's the pity -- he lies a 'day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o 'Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o 'strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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a kemple o 'strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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a kemple o 'strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
hernesheir commented on the word kemple
A Scots measure of weight, for the Wordniks who list units of measure.
December 19, 2010