Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1894
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KORNAL, n. Sc. form of Eng. colonel, in quot. referring to the Colonel whip, the proprietory name of a coachman's plaited leather whip of the period. [′kornəl]Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) xiii.:
But he keepit oot o' the reach o' the cabby's kornals.
