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kemples

kemples is the plural of kemple.

Meaning of kemple

Noun

kemple (plural kemples)

  1. (Scotland) The size of a standard load of straw, approximately 450 pounds.
    • His 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...1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete

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Proper noun capitalized: Kemples

Kemples

  1. (plural) plural of Kemple

Questions about kemples

What is kemples the plural of?
Kemples is the plural of kemple.
What part of speech is kemples?
Kemples is a proper noun.

Words near kemples in the dictionary

  1. kempite
  2. Kempker
  3. Kempkers
  4. kemplang
  5. kemple
  6. kemples
  7. Kempner
  8. Kempner series
  9. kempo
  10. kemps
  11. Kemps Creek

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