kame

¹ American  

[keym] / keɪm /

noun

Physical Geography.

1. a ridge or mound of stratified drift left by a retreating ice sheet.

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kame ² American  

[keym] / keɪm /

noun

Scot.

1. combe.

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kame British  

/ keɪm /

noun

1. an irregular mound or ridge of gravel, sand, etc, deposited by water derived from melting glaciers

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kame Scientific  

/ kām /

1. A small hill or ridge consisting of layers of sand and gravel deposited by a meltwater stream at the margin of a melting glacier.

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Etymology

Origin of kame¹

1860–65 for this sense; special use of Scots, N dial. kame comb ( Middle English (dial.) camb, kambe, Old English camb, comb ); see comb

Origin of kame²

Dialectal variant of comb

Example Sentences

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kame

“TK” is journalese for “to come,” and the story kame as promised a few minutes later, with “Historic” in the headline:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2016

‘And every Saturday at noon The machrel comes to me, An’ she takes my laily head An’ lays it on her knee, An’ kames it wi’ a siller kame, An’ washes it i’ the sea.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Indeed, either may head in a kame area.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

North of the area of boulders, eskers, and kames just described lies a swamp whose surface is 30 to 40 feet below the upper level of the kame gravels.

From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Sawyer-Harvey, Ruth

O wha will kame my yellow hair,5 With a new-made silver kame?

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various