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kame

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kame  (km)
n.
A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice.

[Dialectal, a low ridge, from Middle English camb, comb, comb, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.]

kame  (km)
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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In Andover, Massachusetts, for example, an unpretentious sign announces the entrance to Indian Ridge, a glacial kame retrieved from logging activity by the Andover Village Improvement Society during the 1890s.
Kame also took into account the unique Japanese vocabulary of medical conditions such as Takotsubo's cardiomyopathy -- a heart condition that has only ever been observed in Japan.
DL Lanton Kame, Death Valley (1976) One-armed athlete was far from handicapped
 
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