Look up: cairn

1. Cairn
   [disambiguation] Cairn is a manmade pile of stones. Cairn may also refer to: ...
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2. cairn
   [n] - a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path 2. [n] - small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
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3. CAIRN
   Collaborative Advanced Interagency Research Network
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4. Cairn
   A heap of stones usually set up as a memorial or landmark.
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5. cairn
   In archaeology, a barrow or burial mound made entirely or partly of stones. Cairns are usually erected to cover a chamber or pit and have a surrounding ditch. They are found only in regions with a...
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6. Cairn
   A mound of stones. These can be to cover burials of inhumations or cremations, or clearance cairns. Groups of cairns, of whatever purpose, can be called a cairnfield. They are a variety of types, such as ring cairns.
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7. cairn
   a mound of rough stones of pyramidal shape used as a landmark Category: Transport
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8. Cairn
   Cairn noun [ Gael. carn , gen. cairn , a heap: confer Ir. & W. carn .] 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 pl...
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9. cairn
   cairn terrier noun small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
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10. cairn
    noun a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
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11. Cairn
    • (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. • (n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
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12. cairn
    a pile of stones that is used as a boundary marker, a memorial, or a burial site. Cairns are usually conical in shape and were often erected on high ...
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13. Cairn
    In Scottish archaeology, a cairn is a mound of stones raised over a prehistoric grave, like an English barrow. Ancient cairns are of two types - chambered from the stone age and unchambered from the bronze age. Chambered cairns are again found in two forms; long cairns and horned cairns.
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14. Cairn
    Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. It comes from the carn (plural cairn) or càrn (plural càirn). Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren dese...
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15. cairn
    cairn, pile of stones, usually conical in shape, raised as a landmark or a memorial. In prehistoric times it was usually erected over a burial. A barrow is sometimes called a cairn.
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16. cairn
    (dog) Scottish breed of terrier. Shaggy, short-legged, and compact, it can be sandy, greyish brindle, or red. It was formerly used for flushing out foxes and badgers
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