Recent Examples on the WebRanger died in 1940 and was buried at the summit of Mount Hood, which is marked by a stone cairn and an engraved plaque.—Meira Gebel, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024 The trail can be confusing so keep an eye open for cairns and tree notches serving as trail markers.—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024 China’s vast coal mountain looks like just such a cairn, to mark a peak our planet’s climate will be glad to see the back of.—David Fickling, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2024 Most of what remains of the historic General Crook Trail are eroding two tracks, toppled rock cairns, tree blazes, a few telegraph insulators and roadside monuments.—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cairn
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English (Scots) carne, from Scottish Gaelic carn; akin to Old Irish & Welsh carn cairn
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