This word came from the Basque word esker, and perhaps more noticeably, from the unrecorded Basque derivative ezkerdo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Translations » Blog Archive » Anyone for a glass of kalimotxo and a pintxo?] Reference

That particular esker just gets too crowded for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Striped Bass Are Gamefish] Reference

Once Konala motioned him to crawl beside her to the crest of an esker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

But when the man and woman descended the esker to the shore of the pond, they found the Anson exactly as they had left it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Without waiting to see if she had understood, he began to climb the slope of a sandy esker that rose to the south of the pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Greenhill Rapids is a ¾-mile-long cauldron across the backbone of an esker, one of those weird rock formations created by the dragging fingers of a receding glacier.    From Wordnik.com.  [T.] Reference

When they reached the rounded ridge of the esker, they stopped for a rest, and looking back, Ayla saw the glacier unshrouded by mists from the perspective of distance for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

Such darkly shadowed taluses under an open, light-filled firmament just waiting to ravenously warm every windblown, cascading, double-trunked forest shrub and errant piece of fossilized driftwood on the esker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday Salon: The Cover of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands] Reference

Empat = fourth day of the week, work and school day escollo = island, name of a Fling in the East Tendril esker = ridge of gravel deposited by water ethicist = ethicist (elected every half-year, settles interim questions of public good unless larger vote is required).    From Wordnik.com.  [SKENE GLOSSARY (SKENE TO ENGLISH)] Reference

A high glacial esker parallels the river, and it's pleasant to hike for miles along the open tundra on top of the esker with a good view of the surrounding country and a long view of the river's course, and then drop down to river level to fish your way back up to the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Brookies in a River You Can Wade] Reference

For more information, visit www. esker.com esker Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [PR.com Press Releases] Reference

She parted from the esker as the Banshee keened for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warnings] Reference

Behind the terminal moraines lie wide till plains, in places studded thickly with drumlins, or ridged with an occasional esker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Babewendigash River winds to and fro between the mountains, its course being determined to a great extent by esker ridges that follow it on either side and which are often more than one hundred feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Labrador Trail] Reference

We liked for awhile bounding from tussuck to tussuck, or resting on a green esker in the domain of the old academicians of Grattan's time; but 'tis pleasanter, after all, to tread the firm ground of our own archæologists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

If you want to go from, say, Resolute Bay to Cambridge Bay, it's more efficient to do it in a King Air than in a Twin Otter, but if you want to go out to an esker somewhere in the middle of nowhere, the only option is a Twin Otter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Wiveton and Cley decorate this tapestry of golden marshland stretching north to the shingle spit of Blakeney Point, and from the ridge of the esker you finally glimpse the elusive North Sea, on the final leg of your journey back to Blakeney harbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Up to the esker ridge it was, Mallinger parish, to a mead that was not far, the son’s rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

What secondtonone myther rector and maximost bridges-maker was the first to rise taller through his beanstale than the bluegum buaboababbaun or the giganteous Wellingtonia Sequoia; went nudiboots with trouters into a liffeyette when she was barely in her tricklies; was well known to claud a conciliation cap onto the esker of his hooth; sports a chainganger’s albert solemenly over his hullender’s epulence; thought he weighed a new ton when there felled his first lapapple; gave the heinous-ness of choice to everyknight betwixt yesterdicks and twomaries; had sevenal successivecoloured serebanmaids on the same big white drawringroam horthrug; is a Willbeforce to this hour at house as he was in heather; pumped the catholick wartrey and shocked the prodestung boyne; killed his own hungery self in anger as a young man; found fodder for five when allmarken rose goflooded; with Hirish tutores Cornish made easy; voucher of rotables, toll of the road; bred manyheaded stepsons for one leapyourown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

"Oh, esker ... esker vous ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Sally] Reference

It is mostly reclaimed bog and esker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics.ie] Reference

For further information visit - www. esker.com.    From Wordnik.com.  [PR.com Press Releases] Reference

Is it, is it, the esker.    From Wordnik.com.  [planet.journals.ie] Reference

Web site: www. esker.com.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madison.com - top] Reference

For more information, visit www. esker.com.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference

"esker -- esker ----".    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarians] Reference

Follow me beeline and you’re bumblin, esker, newcsle, saggard, crumlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Second-biggest Island = Verzin (Dutch for manufacture) -- has astronomer at one end, long river (Nahar) from heights, gravelworks at esker, ejida, weavers and dyers, manufacturing (plastics, metal), main electrical plant, steamworks, paper makers, plus large airfield, many residents, shops, and ferry to and from Pomar, as well as ferry along the Eastern Tendril.    From Wordnik.com.  [SKENE ISLANDS] Reference