cwms

The mountains are rounded in outline, very massive, with small excrescent peaks and undeveloped 'cwms' (T. + 18°).

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

It bulks above long moorland valleys, its northern face hollowed and indented by some of the finest Welsh cwms.

Country diary: Pumlumon 2011

You see some people can retire to "Hermitages" as well as other people; and though even Argyll cum Gladstone powers of self-deception could not persuade me that the view from my window is as good as that from yours, yet I do see a fine wavy chalk down with "cwms" and soft turfy ridges, over which an old fellow can stride as far as his legs are good to carry him.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

You see some people can retire to "Hermitages" as well as other people; and though even Argyll cum Gladstone powers of self-deception could not persuade me that the view from my window is as good as that from yours, yet I do see a fine wavy chalk down with "cwms" and soft turfy ridges, over which an old fellow can stride as far as his legs are good to carry him.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

The cwms are very fine in the lower foot-hills and the glaciers have carved deep channels between walls at very high angles; one or two peaks on the foot-hills stand bare and almost perpendicular, probably granite; we should know later.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

Otherwise, although there are many cwms on the lower ranges, the mountains themselves seem little carved.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

'cirques' or 'cwms,' of which we have remarkably fine examples, is still a little mysterious -- one notes also the requirement of observation which might throw light on the erosion of previous ages.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890