Cairn
//kɛən//
"Cairn" in a Sentence (4 examples)
The Cairn terrier is a relatively small dog, with Scottish origins.
At the edge of the haunted moor stood a cairn said to mark the grave of a forgotten king.
"Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.
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