karn.

1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 352 The direct erosive action of ice in forming ‘glacier-pots’ (Karen) and inland lakes.

1905 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 13 2 Above the shoulders the valley slopes are far from being regular; often they form cirque-like niches, at the bottoms of which little tarns occur. These are the Kar of the Alps, the ‘corries’ of Scotland.

1905 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 13 16 Now and then we find here mountains with a single corrie or Kar.

1905 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 13 16 There is a sharp crest line which separates the corries or Kare of opposite sides.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 59 Such amphitheaters are called cirques in the French-speaking parts of the Alps, Kars in the German-speaking regions, cwms in Wales, and corries in Scotland. All four terms have achieved some degree of international usage, but the first seems to have been the most widely employed.

1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation v. 128 The heads of the fjords formed in this way are called botn, dalbotn or saekkedaler..and differ from the true glacial cirque or fjeldbotn. They are almost the equivalent of the trogschluss or kar of the Alps.