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Karn

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A pile of rocks. dated

    "Besides the single bason above-mention'd, I could not perceive one in all the rocks; but in a Karn below, overlooking, and it's sides almost perpendicular to the sea, I saw many furrows and clefts crossing the surface of the upper rocks; this lower-most Karn is call'd in the Cornish tongue Karn-a-wethen, that is, the Tree-Karn […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Cornish karn. Doublet of cairn.

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