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Answer for the clue "Glacial sand deposit ", 4 letters:
kame

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Word definitions for kame in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kame is a geomorphological feature. Kame may also refer to: The KAME project , a cooperative UNIX IPv6 coding effort of six Japanese companies KAME-TV , a television station (channel 20) licensed to Reno, Nevada, United States Kame Sen'nin (Japanese for ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context geology English) A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kame \Kame\, n. A low ridge. [Scot.] See Eschar .

Usage examples of kame.

Atlantic we almost everywhere find the glacial waste here and there accumulated near the margin of the sea in the complicated sculptured outlines which are assumed by kame sands and gravels.

Wrinkled skin sagging from his bony frame, Kame belched and stretched on the cool, shaded sand with his third cup of tea.

I suspected Lieutenant Commander Kames was probably a damned fine RIO.

These kames and sand plains, because of the silicious nature of their materials and the very porous nature of the soil which they afford, are commonly sterile, or at most render a profit to the tiller by dint of exceeding care.

This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful, that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr.

Kames - Sir David Kames - very big business - buying his way up to the House of Lords.

David Kames ought to have been here, but the wretch cried off at the last moment.

Reggie mumbled, well aware that he did not and that Kames was the exuberant, wealthy animal with whom she had been talking at the garden party, before she lectured on Mrs.

She also asked Kames, who was matey with her just before she came and lectured us on the Poyntz case.

All these drumlins and kames contain a certain amount of gold, scraped off the outcrop in the ice age.

The Dunoon phyllites form a narrow belt about a mile and a half broad crossing the island between Kames Bay and Etterick Bay, while the area to the north is occupied by grits and schists which may be the western prolongations of the Beinn Bheula group.

This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful, that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr. Johnson, was compelled to allow it very high praise.

This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful, that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr.

The nas kame brought him to the moving ramp and preceded him up, looking back once casually at the scene below, ignoring Aiela.