Sc. and north. dial. Also 4 caule stok, 5 cale stok, caustocke, 5–6 calstok, 6 calstock(e. [f. cal, KALE + STOCK: the vowel being shortened and the l at length lost before the consonant group: in mod. Sc. further reduced to casto’, casta. Uncombined, it remains kale-stock, kail-stock.] The stalk or stem of a cabbage.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xxii. (MS.). Men may graffe on a bete stok, as men doþ on a caule stok [1495 caustocke].
c. 1425. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 644. Hoc magudere, calstok.
1483. Cath. Angl., 51. A cale stok, maguderis.
1522. Skelton, Why Nat to Court, 350. Nat worth a shyttel-cocke, Nat worth a sowre calstocke.
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 72. The Killings, Herrings, Castocks.
1785. Jrnl. Lond. to Portsmouth, in Poems Buchan Dial., 5 (Jam.). As freugh as kaill-castacks.
1808–79. Jamieson, Castock, castack, custoc; often kail-castock.
