cairn
pronunciation
How to pronounce cairn in British English:
UK [keən]
How to pronounce cairn in American English:
US [kern]
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- Noun:
- a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
- small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
Word Origin
- cairn (n.)
- 1530s, from Scottish carne, from Gaelic carn "heap of stones, rocky hill," akin to Gaulish karnon "horn," perhaps from PIE *ker-n- "highest part of the body, horn," thus "tip, peak" (see horn (n.)).
Example
- 1. Cairn plugged and abandoned both wells as the summer drilling season ended .
- 2. Cairn energy slumped 6.6 percent to 384.9 pence , the largest retreat in 18 months .
- 3. Barclays , credit suisse , cairn and pramerica all declined to comment .
- 4. Cairn is keeping the plan secret because it knows it is not worth the paper it is written on .
- 5. Because you can 't clean up an arctic oil spill , that 's what the experts say , and publishing the plan would show that cairn hasn 't got a viable plan .