kamen.

Brit.

/keɪm/, U.S.

/keɪm/

Forms: also kaim.

Etymology: Variant of comb n. (see β. forms at that entry).

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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kame
释义	kamen. Brit. /keɪm/, U.S. /keɪm/ Forms: also kaim. Etymology: Variant of comb n. (see β. forms at that entry). 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > glacial mound 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1862
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