(Welsh cwm; French cirque) steep-sided hollow in the mountainside of a glaciated area A corrie is open at the front, and its sides and back are formed of aretes There may be a lake in the bottom, called a tarn
comes from the Gaelic coire, and is applied to a round hollow in the mountainside and to a whirlpool The name literally means a kettle (or, more strictly, a cauldron or boiler, which in olden days did not have handles or a spout like a modern kettle)