kamen.
/keɪm/, U.S. /keɪm/ Originally northern and Scottish.
= comb n. 6d; used in various senses, esp. that of a steep and sharp hill ridge; hence in Geology 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.
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moraine1783
osar1842
esker1852
kame1862
sow-back1874
push moraine1890
whaleback1893
recessional moraine1897
Ra1902
Salpausselkä1923
1862 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 4 341 To examine the remarkable ridges of sand and gravel, called ‘Kaims’, at Bedshiel, at Oxenden, and in the Dune woods..These Kaims consist of elongated ridges of drift..with steep sides, and attaining sometimes a height of 50 or 60 feet.
1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) xxvi. 430 Those marine gravelly mounds, called Kames or Eskers.
1884 Geol. Mag. 565 He [Prof. H. Carvell Lewis] described in detail a number of marginal kames in Pennsylvania.
1894 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 5 388 The most southerly examples of true eskers or kames in this country.
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