killow
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
killow (plural killows)
- An old unit of measure for grain, used in Constantinople.
Etymology 2[edit]
From English dialect kollow (“the smut or grime on the backs of chimneys”).
Noun[edit]
killow
- An earth of a blackish or deep blue colour.
- 1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “Earths and Earthy Substances”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, page 3:
- A black Earth, made into Form of a Ball, and called Killow.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
“killow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.