Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with cairns.
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Examples
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The minister alone remained at his post continuing in ejaculatory prayer, and resisting all persuasion even to take advantage of the adjoining cairny cave.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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3, Catharine, to Robert Murray, of Aber - cairny. y 4.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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