Esker [noun]
Definition of Esker:
small hill
Synonyms of Esker:
● Ridge
● Dune
● Bluff
● Cliff
● Slope
● Incline
● Hillock
● Mount
● Rise
● Drift
● Headland
● Summit
● Heap
● Mound
● Ascent
● Mesa
● Hilltop
● Hummock
● Butte
● Highland
Sentence/Example of Esker:
Behind the terminal moraines lie wide till plains, in places studded thickly with drumlins, or ridged with an occasional esker.
And he went to the friars at Esker to take it off of him, and they took it off.
The Esker friars used to do great cures—Father Callaghan was the best of them.
I often saw Father Callaghan in Esker and the people brought to him in carts.
I'll be bound he's on the Esker, looking afther the sheep, poor crathurs, durin' Andy Connor's illness in the small-pock.
Under that end of this Esker which pointed nearest to the south-west, stood the chapel we have just mentioned.
The esker is fully a quarter of a mile long, about thirty feet high, and four rods wide at its base.
One esker only has been found in the region under consideration.
Do you think he will teach us to do cures like the friars used at Esker?
Only a single heavily wooded esker was found, and this ran through a forest region.