North. and Sc. form of COMB sb. (q.v.) in various senses, esp. that of a steep and sharp hill ridge; hence in Geol. one of the elongated mounds of post-glacial gravel, found at the lower end of the great valleys in Scotland and elsewhere throughout the world; an esker or osar.
1862. [see COMB sb. 6 d].
1863. A. C. Ramsay, Phys. Geog., xxvi. (1878), 430. Those marine gravelly mounds, called Kames or Eskers.
1884. Geol. Mag., 565. He [Prof. H. Carvell Lewis] described in detail a number of marginal kames in Pennsylvania.
1894. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., June, 388. The most southerly examples of true eskers or kames in this country.
