Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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†CARHAIL, v. To hail, to call out to in a bantering way.Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) xi.:
They were bickering one another with snow-balls, or maybe carhailling the folk on the street in their idle wantonness.