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

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

A form of terrace even more common than the river-made terrace is the kame terrace found along borders of the lowlands.

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 wherefore should I busk6 my heid, Or wherefore should I kame my hair?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

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.