Definitions for cairnkɛərn
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
cairnkɛərn(n.)
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, etc.
Origin of cairn:
1525–35; < ScotGael carn pile of stones; perh. akin to horn
Princeton's WordNet
cairn(noun)
a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
cairn, cairn terrier(noun)
small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
Wiktionary
cairn(Noun)
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.
cairn(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.
cairn(Noun)
A cairn terrier.
Origin: From cairn, from carn; compare Old Irish carn, Welsh carn, probably from a word meaning ‘horn’.
Webster Dictionary
Cairn(noun)
a rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument
Cairn(noun)
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
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Cairn
a heap of stones often, though not always, loosely thrown together, generally by way of a sepulchral monument, and it would seem sometimes in execration of some foul deed.
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