Geol. Also 9 escar, eskar, -ir. [a. Ir. eiscir.] ‘The name given in Ireland to the elongated and often flat-topped mounds of post-glacial gravel which occur abundantly in the greater river-valleys of that country’ (Page). Also in comb., as esker-like.
1852. E. Forbes, in Wilson & Geikie, Life, xiv. 505. The top of Headon Hill is capped by a great esker of gravell.
1865. Page, Hand-bk. Geol., Eskirs or Escars.
1882. Geikie, Text-bk. Geol., VI. V. i. § 1. 892. Ridges, known in Scotland as kames, in Ireland as eskers, and in Scandinavia as ōsar.
1882. E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. iii. 55. Towards sunset we neared the flank of a long escar-like sand ridge.
