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

“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

Aneath his cauld brow siccan dreams hover there, O' hands that wont kindly to kame his dark hair; But mornin' brings clutches, a' reckless an' stern, That lo'e nae the locks o' the mitherless bairn!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

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

‘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

Dear ——:—Yure letter kame safe unto hand last nite bi mail, and i hurry tew repli.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.