esker

• eskar

From Irish eiscir (“esker, glacial ridge”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛskɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛskə/

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esker (plural eskers)

1. A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
   • 1988, Robert Phillip Sharp, Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation‎^[1], page 149:

     Another unusual ice-contact feature is an esker, a long, narrow, steep-sided ridge of glaciofluvial sand and gravel inhabiting a glaciated area. Eskers tend to follow valleys and lowlands, carefully picking a course between obstacles.

   • 1999, L. Clayton, J. W. Attig, D. M. Mickelson, “Tunnel channels formed in Wisconsin during the last glaciation”, in David M. Mickelson, John W. Attig, editors, Glacial Processes, Past and Present, page 77:

     Another objection to the tunnel-valley interpretation comes from a comparison with eskers. […] The esker rivers and the tunnel-channel rivers of Wisconsin therefore seem to have been the result of significantly different meltwater regimes.

   • 2001, Allan D. Randall, Hydrogeologic Framework of Stratified-drift Aquifers in the Glaciated Northeastern United States, US Geological Survey Paper 1415-B, page B37,

     The multiple deltas must have formed sequentially, which led Thompson (1982) to conclude that the eskers were built in successive segments.

• osar, asar
• os

• Keres, ekers, krees, reeks, reesk, skeer

• IPA^(key): /es̺ker/ [es̺.ker]

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• Rhymes: -es̺ker, -er
• Hyphenation: es‧ker

esker inan

1. gratitude, thankfulness
2. benefit
3. merit

• eskerrik asko
• mila esker

esker (+ dative case)

1. thanks to, owing to

   zuri esker ― thanks to you

• “esker”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “esker”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

esker m or f

1. indefinite plural of eske

esker f

1. indefinite plural of eske

esker m (plural eskeres)

1. esker

From Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar, “army”), from Persian لشکر (laškar, “army”).

• IPA^(key): [ɛsˈkɛɾ]
• Hyphenation: es‧ker

esker

1. soldier

• eskeriye

• espar