Cairn
[keən] or [kɛrn]
Definition
(noun.) small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland.
(noun.) a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
Checker: Natalia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
(n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
Typist: Shirley
Definition
n. a heap of stones esp. one raised over a grave or as a landmark on a mountain-top.—n. Cairn′gorm-stone or simply Cairngorm a name often given by jewellers to brown or yellow quartz or rock-crystal because found among the Cairngorm Mountains in Aberdeenshire.
Typed by Arlene
Examples
- In the age of Pericles scarcely the first stone of our comparatively tremendous cairn of things recorded and proved had been put in place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dead under a cairn of avenging stones in half an hour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Patrick Cairns. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You were so absorbed in young Neligan that you could not spare a thought to Patrick Cairns, the true murderer of Peter Carey. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I found Patrick Cairns among the harpooners, my research was nearing its end. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This room is not well adapted for a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a proportion of our carpet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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