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Word: cairn (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
  • A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
  • dogs A cairn terrier.

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