kame

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I ken it frae ane o' his concurrents, as they ca' them, that's warned to meet him; and they'll be about their wark belyve; whare they clip, there needs nae kame--they shear close eneugh Are you sure this bad hour, Edie, is so very near?--come, I know, it will It's e'en as I tell you, leddy.

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

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  • If anything they'll have good fx in the movie for the kame hame or powering up. —  SCI FI Wire
  • Pasha Allahun, unë nuk kamë parë ndonjë person, prej se e kame lëshuar Horasanin e deri më tani, i cili më shumë i meriton ato se sa ti. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The kame at Sauer-Prairie is the 30-foot mound of gravel that collected in a depression when a glacier retreated 14,000 years ago. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • 'The kame was born as water and gravel fell through a hole formed a cone-shaped pile beneath the glacier,' according to information posted at the site. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • A larger kame cluster, near Dundee in Fond du Lac County, is protected within the Northern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest. —  JSOnline.com
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  1. Dialectal, a low ridge, from Middle English camb, comb, comb, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.
 

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