Sc. Also kylie. [Origin uncertain. ? Related to kyle2.] One of a small breed of cattle with long horns reared in the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland.
1811. W. Aiton, Agric. Ayr., xiv. 414. Some have imagined that Kyloes, the name given to the Cattle of Argyleshire, is derived from Kyle.
1814. Scott, Wav., xi. Killancureit talked … of … dinmonts, and stols, and runts, and kyloes.
1861. Smiles, Engineers, II. VIII. viii. 380. Making little or no export from the country beyond the few lean kyloes, which paid the rent.
1882. Ordnance Gaz. Scot., I. 71. The cattle are chiefly Kyloes or West Highlanders, a small shaggy race.
