definition of the word cairn

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From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic carn (“‘heap of stones’”); compare Old Irish carn, Welsh carn, probably from a Proto-Celtic word meaning ‘horn’.

• (UK) IPA: /kɛən/, SAMPA: /kE@n/
• (US) IPA: /kɛərn/, SAMPA: /kE@rn/

cairn (plural cairns)

1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

   Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. -Campbell.

2. 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.
3. (zoology) A cairn terrier.

• cairned a
• cairn terrier

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