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cairn::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cairn terrier |
| Type of | terrier |
Examples of cairn
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Cairn announced this week that it had begun drilling in two wells in the region.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cairn Energy Plc climbed 6.7 percent to 355 pence, leading energy stocks higher.
From the bloomberg.com
Cairn said this week it hired two rigs to drill four wells off Greenland in 2011.
From the bloomberg.com
Other features include cairn cemeteries, wells, fields, and irrigation systems.
From the theepochtimes.com
That's when she and her 14-year-old cairn terrier, Dougal, found Golon and Romeo.
From the stltoday.com
Passersby would then throw stones at the spot until a cairn arose over the bones.
From the time.com
Do the highway cairn builders not know that these are, historically, road markers?
From the odt.co.nz
Maybe in time, there will be other messages, other stones placed on his cairn.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cairn Energy slumped 4.9 percent to 391.7 pence, the largest retreat in 18 months.
From the bloomberg.com
- A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
- Small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
- (cairned) marked by cairns
- A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: cu00E0rn (plural cu00E0irn). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from pre-historic times up to the present.
- Caamas is a toxic planet in the Cirius System that was formerly a highly populated habitable world, until the Empire bombarded it shortly after the Clone Wars, killing nearly all the inhabitants of the planet. The native Caamasi were a peaceful civilization, much like Alderaan. ...
- The Cairn is a Local Nature Reserve in the North Devon coastal town of Ilfracombe, England.
- Cairns (locally) is a city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The city was named after William Wellington Cairns (then Governor of Queensland). ...
- A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument; 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; A ...
- (cairns (yd)) cairns, Heaps of stones, tapering at the top to form a cone, usually a monument of some kind
