north. dial. [= Sc. kame, kaim, a. ON. kamb-r (Da. and Sw. kam) COMB, crest, serrated ridge, crest or ridge of a hill, etc. The same word originally as COMB, and CAM sb.1, but the three come through distinct channels, and there is no consciousness of their identity.]
A ridge; a long narrow earthen mound; the bank on which a hedge is planted or the like.
1788. Marshall, E. Yorksh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Cam, any long mound of made earth.
1855. Whitby Gloss., Cam, a mound of earth, a bank boundary to a field.
1861. E. B. Ramsay, Remin., Ser. II. Introd. p. xxvi. (Yorksh. dial.) Cum doun t’cam soid.
1876. Mid. Yorksh. Gloss., Cam, a rise of hedge-ground; generally cam-side.
