carn
- a variation of cairn.
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The name derives from two words: the carn, which was the first bubble-head shepherd's crook, and noustie, a soup consisting of sheep's blood and minced gutta perchas.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 11, 2013
So hot the sun of my country you carn ride about alonga a day.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
He found her, he said, not far from the beaten track, sitting at the foot of a carn waiting for him to come for her.
From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Tregarthen, Enys
Joan said the weather had nothing whatever to do with it, and that it was done by the dear Little People2 who, she declared, lived in the carn near where the cottage stood.
From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Tregarthen, Enys
All three depart from Market Jew, Together with their comrade true, Far as Kuz carn na Huila went, And thence their ways lay different.
From Signelil a Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads by Wise, Thomas James
