| Front | esker \ES-kuhr\ |
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| Back | noun A long, narrow ridge of gravel and sand deposited by a stream flowing in or under a retreating glacier. [From Irish eiscir (ridge of gravel).] "My geography teacher likened an esker to the mess left by a drunk simultaneously walking backward and throwing up." |
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