OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36889

cairn

/kɛən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mojón • montículo • punto de referencia
A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
"Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
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