esker

Synonyms for esker

noun small hill

noun. small hill

noun. uprising of earth's surface; pile

noun. small hill

noun. raised part of solid

noun. raised part of solid

"deposit left by a glacial stream," 1852, from Irish eiscir "ridge of gravel."

And he went to the friars at Esker to take it off of him, and they took it off.

Do you think he will teach us to do cures like the friars used at Esker?

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.

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.