Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Dialectal (Scotch) forms of comb.
  • noun A peculiar elongated ridge, made up of detrital material. See eskar, and horseback, 2.
  • noun A camp or fortress.
  • An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of comb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. A low ridge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun geology A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Dialectal, a low ridge, from Middle English camb, comb, comb, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.]

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

    November 18, 2008

  • It kame and went!

    November 29, 2011