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Definition of corries in English English dictionary
- plural of corrie
- Corrie
- A female given name, diminutive of Cora, Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia
- Corrie
- A male given name, occasional transferred use of the surname
- corrie
- A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation
- Corrie
- diminutive of Cora, Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia
- Corrie
- Coronation Street (soap opera)
- Corrie
- occasional transferred use of the surname
- Corrie
- A Scottish surname
- corrie
- {i} cirque, emicircular bowl-shaped hole with steep walls inside of a hill or mountain formed by glacial erosion (Geology)
- corrie
- A glacially scoured bowl or saucer-shaped hollow in a high mountain side Other names include cirque (French) and cwm (Welsh)
- corrie
- (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
- corrie
- A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain caused by glacial erosion After glaciation, the depression may contain a lake
- corrie
- a deep bowl-shaped area on a mountain (coire )
- corrie
- Same as Correi
- corrie
- a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
- corrie
- 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)