karn

Borrowed from Cornish [Term?]. Doublet of cairn.

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

karn (plural karns)

1. (mining, dated) A pile of rocks.
   • 1754, William Borlase, Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall, page 132:

     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 […]

   • 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, Architectural, Agricultural, Commercial, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, page 30:

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

   • 1817, Charles Sandoe Gilbert, A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, page 175:

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

• ARNK, knar, kran, nark, rank

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• Rhymes: -ɑrn

karn

1. inflection of karnen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

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