Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A round hollow in a hillside; a cirque.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hollow space or excavation in the side of a hill. See comb.
Wiktionary
- n. A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. Same as correi.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
Etymologies
- From Highland Scottish Gaelic, perhaps from Celtic cor a corner. (Wiktionary)
- Scottish Gaelic coire, hollow, cauldron, from Old Irish, cauldron, whirlpool. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“I've watched 'corrie'for 40 years, watched mored programmes per week and watched the dreaded move from Wednesday.”
“Write to Corrie Driebusch at corrie.driebusch@dowjones.com”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Stob Coire Cath na Sine – peak of the corrie of the battle of the elements”
“Stob Coire an Laoigh – peak of the corrie of the calf”
“Stob Coire Gaibhre – peak of the corrie of the goat”
“Stob Coire Easain – peak of the corrie of the waterfall”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corrie’.
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Water always flows downhill
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
swale, hollow, creek, crick, depression, holler, draw, ditch, corrie, cwm, continental divide, stream and 89 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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glaciation, fluvioglaciation and peri...
pingo, freeze-thaw, loess, solifluction, outwash plain, nivation hollow, drumlin, roche moutonee, ribbon lake, scree slope, blockfield, felsenmeer and 6 more...
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Hillwalking
Rambling terms, walking words and trekking phrases
shank's mare, yomp, tab, hump, ramble, traipsing, dingle, nullah, groundsel, bealach, cairn, regolith and 6 more...
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over dale
- elevation
dale, valley, glen, holm, canyon, crevasse, dune, arroyo, wadi, gully, gulch, gorge and 22 more...
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The Crow Road
Words encountered while reading Iain Banks's terrific "The Crow Road"
machair, brindle, nimrod, cullen skink, lochan, the kyles of bute, kip, gateaux blaster, condign, percussive cremation, ballast mound, braw and 71 more...
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Geography Glaciation Words
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Interesting Places
Place-words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for corrie.
hernesheir ""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. Sep 29, 2009
treeseed See cirque or cwm Jan 25, 2008