Meanings
plural curricks
- Northern EnglanddialectalA pile of rocks used as a landmark; a cairn.
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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 you can fall down and die.
2012, Simon Armitage, Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 116
Origin
- Old Irishcrúach“stack, pile”
- Cumbric*carreg“stone”
- Englishcurrick
Possibly from Cumbric *carreg (“stone”) or Old Irish crúach (“stack, pile”).
More words from Cumbric, Old Irish
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