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corrie Sc.|ˈkɒrɪ|
Also currie, correi, corri, corry.
[a. Gaelic coire (pronounced ˈkɔre) cauldron, kettle; hence, whirlpool (as in Corrievreckan Brecan's cauldron), and circular hollow.]
a. The name given in the Scottish Highlands to a more or less circular hollow on a mountain side, surrounded with steep slopes or precipices except at the lowest part, whence a stream usually flows.
1795Statist. Acc. Scot. XVI. 104 The Corries or Curries of Balglass. They are semicircular excavations hollowed out in that ridge of hills. 1807J. Headrick Arran 60 This glen terminates in a circular hollow, or corry. 1814Scott Wav. xvi, That little corri, or bottom, on the opposite side of the burn. 1841Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journies 6 Sept., The great corries into which the weather has hollowed one side of most of the mountains [in Skye]. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. viii. (1872) 251 Left silent in the solitude of some Highland Corry. 1875Buckland Log-bk. 235 The corrie where the deer are lying. 1882Standard 23 Aug. 2/1 In Blackmount deer corries there will be good sport.
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1894J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age (ed. 3) 254 No corrie-basin dates its origin to this stage. Ibid., We have only to contrast the drainage-area of Glen Avon with that of Glen Derry or Glen Beg to see why it is that in the latter only high-level corrie-lakes occur. 1894J. W. Gregory in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. L. 515 The ‘corrie’ or ‘hanging glaciers’. 1904Nature 7 Apr. 549/1 The phase of corrie-glaciers, when the glacial detritus was borne for no great distance from the local centres of dispersion. 1960B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xii. 268 Bergschrunds (the major crevasses which occur near the backs of most corrie glaciers). Ibid. 273 If a rotation occurs,..an explanation of glacial basins, including corrie basins, is obviously possible. |