Karn

Quick meaning: Karn is a noun meaning (mining, dated) A pile of rocks.

Meaning

(mining, dated) A pile of rocks.

Example Sentences

This gorseddau lies opposite to a karn of rocks, which is called the Cheese-wring.

This quoit was brought from a karn about a furlong distance, near which is another cromlech, not so large.

Besides the single bason above-mention'd, I could not perceive one in all the rocks; but in a Karn below, overlooking, and it's sides almost perpendicular to the sea, I saw many furrows and clefts crossing the surface of the upper rocks; this lower-most Karn is call'd in the Cornish tongue Karn-a-wethen, that is, the Tree-Karn […]

Word Forms

• karns

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include karen, caren, carn, rockpile, dump, stockpile.

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