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

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

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.

A typical kame is a hill, hillock, or less commonly a short ridge of stratified drift; but several or many are often associated, giving rise to groups and areas of kames.

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

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