As nouns the difference between kell and kelly
is that kell is (obsolete) the caul or kell can be a kiln or kell can be a sort of pottage; kale while kelly is a square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary table of a drilling rig.
kell
English
Etymology 1
Compare caul.
Noun
(
en noun)
(obsolete) The caul.
(obsolete, figurative) That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- I'll have him cut to the kell .
(obsolete) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
- (Ben Jonson)
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
A modification of kale.
Noun
(
-)
A sort of pottage; kale.
- (Ainsworth)
(
Webster 1913)
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kelly
English
Alternative forms
* Kelley
* (female given name) Kelli, Kellie
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
.
transferred from the surname.
, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Quotations
* 1867 Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, The Life of David Garrick , Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1899, page 319
*: A better and more straightforward appeal, though less cool, was made to him by Hugh Kelly', - - - The play was so successful, and and Garrick said so much of it that Lord Pembroke was eager to be back from Paris to see it, though he said, with true aristocratic pride, that he could expect very little from such a name as "' Kelly ", especially if there be an "O'" before it.
* 1986 , Enchantment , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986, ISBN 0151287910, page 207
*: On the walls of the salon are blown-up photos of models with dazzling teeth and ingeniously tousled hair - women with names like Kelly and Dawn, who come from tiny towns in Texas and Washington, who are tall and thin, and who don't appear to be burdened by any pasts to speak of.
