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noun a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
noun small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
origin* As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.
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