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What does esker mean?

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Noun
  1. A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
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And he went to the friars at esker to take it off of him, and they took it off.
Ice-contact and glaciofluvial deposits are tens of metres thick and are contained in five north-trending esker ridges.
The esker is fully a quarter of a mile long, about thirty feet high, and four rods wide at its base.
Locally, thin sheets of gravel may extend the esker aquifer laterally to include aquifers at the contact between sediment and bedrock.
This valley was followed from Thonokied Lake to Lac de Gras and the heightof-land was observed where the esker cuts across the valley.
I'll be bound he's on the esker, looking afther the sheep, poor crathurs, durin' Andy Connor's illness in the small-pock.

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