cairn

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++cairn /keən $ kern/ noun [countable]  GROUP OF THINGSa pile of stones that marks a particular place, especially at the top of a mountain 〔尤指在山顶作为标记的〕石堆，石标

Examples from the Corpus

cairn• Cigarette ends growing into a mound similar to a cairn over a dead hero.• The conical cairn is built with terraces.• Ahead, a low cairn of granite boulders rose clear of the moor.• They comprise pits dug deep into the ground, lined with logs, and covered with a low cairn of stones.• This time, we succeeded and indeed met no difficulties apart from one awkward step across a gap just before the cairn.• Spaced evenly from the bottom up, concentric rings of black crow feathers rise to the top of the cairn.• Some one constructed a stone walkway leading to the cairn, as though it were an altar.• These passage-graves were covered with cairns of stone, frequently mixed with shells in coastal districts.Origin cairn (1500-1600) Scottish Gaelic carn

cairn nounChinese  

of pile place, Corpus a particular that a marks stones

cairn
cairn /keən $ kern/ noun [countable]a pile of stones that marks a particular place, especially at the top of a mountain

cairnBrE /keən/ 🔊NAmE /kern/ 🔊 nouna pile of stones which mark a special place such as the top of a mountain or a place where sb is buried 堆石标（以石堆标示山顶或某人埋葬的地点等）