Usually means: Pile of rocks marking way.
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  1. cairn: Merriam-Webster
  2. cairn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cairn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cairn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cairn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cairn, cairn: Wordnik
  7. cairn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cairn: Wiktionary
  9. cairn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cairn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cairn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cairn, cairn: Dictionary.com
  13. cairn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cairn (disambiguation), Cairn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cairn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cairn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cairn: Rhymezone
  18. Cairn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cairn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cairn: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cairn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cairn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cairn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cairn: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. cairn: Encyclopedia

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  1. cairn: Medical dictionary

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  1. cairn: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
noun:  A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
noun:  A cairn terrier.

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