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currick

currick noun: a pile of rocks used as a landmark; a cairn.

currick: a pile of rocks used as a landmark; a cairn
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Noun

currick (plural curricks)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) A pile of rocks used as a landmark; a cairn.
    • And except for the exaggerated chain of diamonds representing the Pennine Way, the only other cartographical features for the foreseeable future are curricks, cairns, sink-holes, shake-holes, hushes and shafts, the first two being piles of stones like unmarked graves, the other four being things...2012, Simon Armitage, Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 116

Forms of currick

pluralcurricks

Origin of currick

Possibly from Cumbric *carreg (“stone”) or Old Irish crúach (“stack, pile”).

Questions about currick

What does currick mean?
Currick means a pile of rocks used as a landmark; a cairn.
What part of speech is currick?
Currick is a noun.
What is the plural of currick?
The plural of currick is curricks.

Words near currick in the dictionary

  1. Curreris
  2. Currers
  3. currey
  4. Curreys
  5. Curricabark
  6. currick
  7. curricks
  8. curricle
  9. curricles
  10. curricula
  11. curricula vitae

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