kame

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kame (plural kames)

1. (geology) A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

• make, meak

kame

1. we (exclusive; we and not you)

kame

1. Rōmaji transcription of かめ
2. Rōmaji transcription of カメ

kame

1. locative of kas

kame

1. optative active singular of kamati (“to travel”)

• kaim, kamb, camb

Older Scots kame, came, from Middle English cambe (“comb”).

kame (plural kames)

1. an act of combing
   • 1994 [1920], George P. Dunbar, “A guff o' peat reek”, in Anne Forsyth, Canty and Couthie, page 43:

     She wroct fae shreek o' mornin' till the mirkest oor ye'll name,
     An’ scarce hed time t’ dict her face, nor gie her heid a kaim

     She worked from break of morning until the darkest hour you can name, / And scarcely had time to make up her face, or give her head a combing

2. a steep hill or ridge; the crest of a hill

kame (third-person singular simple present kames, present participle kamin, simple past kamet, past participle kamet)

1. to comb
   • 1908, Glasgow Ballad Club, “Jenny Kilfunk”, in Ballads and Poems: Third Series, page 115:

     Wi’ her short green goon, an’ her queer red cap,
     An’ her een sae skelly an’ blear ;
     Wi’ her fingers sae lang, aye keepit sa thrang,
     A-kaimin’ her yellow hair

     With her short green gown, and her odd red cap, / And her eyes so squinty and bleary; / With her fingers so long, held so close together, / Combing her yellow hair

2. to rake loose straw or hay
3. to scold, drub

   gie ’im a kamin doun

   give him a dressing down