Definitions for eskers

eskers es·ker

Spelling: [es-ker]
IPA: /ˈɛs kər/

Eskers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in eskers (eekrss).

Definitions for eskers

noun

  1. a serpentine ridge of gravelly and sandy drift, believed to have been formed by streams under or in glacial ice.

Origin of eskers

First recorded in 1850-55, esker is from the Irish word eiscir ridge of mountains

Examples for eskers

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.

One esker only has been found in the region under consideration.

Under that end of this esker which pointed nearest to the south-west, stood the chapel we have just mentioned.

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.

The esker is fully a quarter of a mile long, about thirty feet high, and four rods wide at its base.

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

Word Value for eskers
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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