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▪ I. kame, kaim|keɪm|
North. and Sc. form of comb n. (q.v.) in various senses, esp. that of a steep and sharp hill ridge; hence in Geol. one of the elongated mounds of post-glacial gravel, found at the lower end of the great valleys in Scotland and elsewhere throughout the world; an esker or osar.
1862[see comb n. 6 d]. 1863A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geog. xxvi. (1878) 430 Those marine gravelly mounds, called Kames or Eskers. 1884Geol. Mag. 565 He [Prof. H. Carvell Lewis] described in detail a number of marginal kames in Pennsylvania. 1894Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. June 388 The most southerly examples of true eskers or kames in this country.
▪ II. kame
obs. Sc. and north. f. comb v.1 |