Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or marked by a cairn or cairns.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective piled up, like a cairn.

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  • adjective Possessed of a cairn.

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  • adjective marked by cairns

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Examples

  • I was in a ballsy mood, and instead of taking the documented and cairned route of least resistance on the traverse, I made up my own variation of adventure along which I found myself covering a considerable stretch of ground on the north side of the summit-to-summit ridge.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • I was in a ballsy mood, and instead of taking the documented and cairned route of least resistance on the traverse, I made up my own variation of adventure along which I found myself covering a considerable stretch of ground on the north side of the summit-to-summit ridge.

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

  • I was in a ballsy mood, and instead of taking the documented and cairned route of least resistance on the traverse, I made up my own variation of adventure along which I found myself covering a considerable stretch of ground on the north side of the summit-to-summit ridge.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • I was in a ballsy mood, and instead of taking the documented and cairned route of least resistance on the traverse, I made up my own variation of adventure along which I found myself covering a considerable stretch of ground on the north side of the summit-to-summit ridge.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

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