cairn
IPA: kˈɛrn
noun
- A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
- 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 cairn terrier.
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Examples of "cairn" in Sentences
- The summit is marked by a cairn.
- A small cairn sits on the grass.
- A cairn marks the highest point.
- Tate's Cairn measured of rainfall.
- On the moors above is a memorial cairn.
- Slieve True is known for a cairn there.
- The route is sparingly marked with cairns.
- Look for the cairn, the marker is to the right.
- Ah, woe! the cairn is over Conn – his hundred battles done,
- It is curious that the drift to leeward of the cairn, that is
- i met her in cairn's, once, some years ago! really nice woman.
- The ruined observatory is in the centre, with the summit cairn to the right.
- It is situated at the northern end of the very scenic and tranquil Cairn Valley.
- It may refer to the cairn thrown over the mythical giant Rhitta Gawr after his defeat by King Arthur.
- Building the cairn was a fine warming jab, but the ice on our whiskers often took some ten minutes thawing out.
- Here stood an emblem of the sun, and on the cairn was a sacred fire, which had been kept burning through the year.
- Surmounting the cairn was a cross of cedar, inscribed with the words: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
- Now there is very little that can be called conventional in a mere stone pillar, or in a cairn, that is, an artificial heap of stones.
- First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again,
- A cairn is a heap of stones, such as is reared in the mountains of Scotland and of Switzerland by the voluntary additions of every passer by, to commemorate a spot marked as the scene of some accident or disaster.