Definitionn. a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
Last update: October 28, 2015
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(See Stone Monuments, Barrow and Cairn.) The custom of constructing sepulchral tumuli was widely prevalent throughout the prehistoric ages and is referred to in the early literature of various races as a fitting commemoration of the illustrious dead. [Please select]
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Do ye obsarve that cairn of stones a bit beyont. [Please select]
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Every barn he knew, and cairn and croft and steeple recalled stories of his boyhood. [Please select]
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"We've got the cairn aboot finished," said McCubine as he came up. [Please select]
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The Sautaux erected a cairn of stones over the bodies of the dead. [Please select]
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If she died, they would bury her under a cairn of stones as they travelled. [Please select]
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I will ensconce me behind the cairn, as behind a strong wall of defence. [Please select]
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Two days before she had visited the lonely cairn. [Please select]
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If you come, bring Doctor Cairn with you, and I warn you now you've got to use a lot of caution. [Please select]
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Doctor Cairn, a frousy, white-bearded old man, crippled from rheumatism, held out his hand to Christopher as he descended with some difficulty between the wheels of the buggy. [Please select]
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