Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A round hollow in a hillside; a cirque.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hollow space or excavation in the side of a hill. See
comb .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. Same as
correi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bowl -shapedgeographical feature formed byglaciation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A corrie was the depression in the ground formed by a stream running down the mountainside, and it would hide the, hunters as they climbed.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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I've watched 'corrie'for 40 years, watched mored programmes per week and watched the dreaded move from Wednesday.
Corrieblog shinychris 2010
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Write to Corrie Driebusch at corrie.driebusch@dowjones.com
This Bunch Backs Two Harbors Corrie Driebusch 2011
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The shrill clarion of the cock was now heard, the demon lost all further power over his victim, and letting him drop with a mighty shudder and a neighing yell, instantly plunged into the loch, the waters of which, for a long time after, boiled and bubbled as if it were a gigantic huntsman's kettle of the kind in which he dresseth the haunch of the red-deer in the corrie.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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I'm going to meet Carol in person for the first time at Rhinbeck, which didn't give me enough time to spin and then weave some of the fibre she gave me, so I took some of my brown corrie handspun and some Fly ing Sheep BFL for the weft, and some Fleece Artist Merino Sock for the warp and made this lovely scarf.
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I'm going to meet Carol in person for the first time at Rhinbeck, which didn't give me enough time to spin and then weave some of the fibre she gave me, so I took some of my brown corrie handspun and some Fly ing Sheep BFL for the weft, and some Fleece Artist Merino Sock for the warp and made this lovely scarf.
October 2009 2009
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Stob Coire Cath na Sine – peak of the corrie of the battle of the elements
The Grey Corries Carla 2008
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Stob Coire an Laoigh – peak of the corrie of the calf
Archive 2008-06-01 Carla 2008
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Stob Coire Cath na Sine – peak of the corrie of the battle of the elements
Archive 2008-06-01 Carla 2008
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That happens much later than the cereal harvest, but at different times in different places - e.g. it might be October in a high Scottish corrie and late November in lowland England.
Thrimilchi (May): the early English calendar Carla 2008
treeseed commented on the word corrie
See cirque or cwm
January 26, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word corrie
""On my first visit in March I passed the eagle's nesting crag and made my way round the rim of the corrie, where grey and white ptarmigan with bright red wattles walked slowly across my path and flew out over a group of feeding hinds.
- From the article Meall Mor, a brief recounting of a trek and observations of the landscape and wildlife of that hill in Rothshire by Raymond Hewson. The Countryman quarterly periodical, Winter, 1956, p. 739.
September 30, 2009