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  • noun Plural form of cairn.

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Examples

  • He grew to wait and dread their coming, never passing the twin cairns without a shudder.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • He grew to wait and dread their coming, never passing the twin cairns without a shudder.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • He grew to wait and dread their coming, never passing the twin cairns without a shudder.

    In a Far Country 1900

  • Now their cairns are all that remain, protective burial mounds that keep the trows away and serve as a reminder that no one should pass their boundary.

    “Heroes of the Valley” by Jonathan Stroud (Hyperion, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Now their cairns are all that remain, protective burial mounds that keep the trows away and serve as a reminder that no one should pass their boundary.

    2010 March 02 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Jodi was mapping as they went along, and marking their backtrail with carefully inconspicuous "cairns" composed of no more than three or four pebbles.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • The central space was probably occupied with a pole, firmly fixed at its base in the 'well,' and kept in position by suitable stays, resting partly on the stone 'cairns' already described, partly in wooden sockets fixed into the log-pavement, and partly on the inner wall of the tower.

    The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore Andrew Lang 1878

  • But, although the localities referred to possess an interest, they are exceeded, in this respect, by a number of "cairns," by which the summits of several hills, or rising grounds, are topped.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819

  • Burial cairns were opened to release dead souls and air out the interiors of their tombs.

    Donna Henes: Doing Death Before it Does Us Donna Henes 2011

  • Burial cairns were opened to release dead souls and air out the interiors of their tombs.

    Donna Henes: Doing Death Before it Does Us Donna Henes 2011

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