Definition of "kemple" [kemple]

• A Scottish weight of straw, from 14 to 16 stone tron. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi 'a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle, and a sleep among the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning."
• "Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi 'a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle, and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning."
• "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 the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning."