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 ); 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

"O still my babe, nurice, O still him wi' the kame."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

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 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.

‘My braw little cock, sits on the house tap, Ye’ll craw not till it be day, And your kame shall be o’ the gude red gowd, And your wings o’ the siller grey.’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank