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cairn

a small rough-haired breed of terrier originally from Scotland
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cairn

[kern]
(engineering)
An artificial mound of rocks, stones, or masonry, usually conical or pyramidal, whose purpose is to designate or to aid in identifying a point of surveying or of cadastral importance.
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cairn

A pile of stones heaped up for a landmark, memorial, or monument; a tumulus.
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VMD, Ph.D., here with her Cairn Terrier, Denver, provided the answer on this page.
My dog is called Jock, mainly because he is a Cairn Terrier which is a Scottish type of dog.
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Three years later her cairn terrier was diagnosed with the same complaint.
The programme follows Layla the springer spaniel, Nash the cairn terrier and Great Dane Thor as they bark and growl their way through their daily lives, and finds out how understanding canine body language could prevent attacks.
Heather the Cairn Terrier still needs a loving home.
Trost, a special education teacher in Millbury, didn't attend the June hearing because she had taken Roxie to Georgia, where her husband, David, lives, on May 29, the day after it mauled a 13-pound cairn terrier.
"It is a fantastic event for all the family," said Belinda, who has a Cairn Terrier called Woolly and a Jack Russell, Teilo.
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