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cairn

[kairn] / kɛərn /




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One person would stay at the first cairn while another would try to locate the next cairn.

From Seattle Times Feb. 20, 2024

In the video, a wilderness restoration ranger gently shoves over a cairn, which appears to be several feet high.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2023

On completing his final climb, Meall Dearg, he is said to have first kissed the cairn, then his wife.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2023

I’ve been there myself, digging as deep as I could into the long and honorable history of my cairn terriers and Pomeranians.

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2021

Emma ran to the mouth of the cairn and blew me an air-kiss.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs




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