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n. - A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.

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  • A corrie was the depression in the ground formed by a stream running down the mountainside, and it would hide the, hunters as they climbed.
  • I've watched 'corrie'for 40 years, watched mored programmes per week and watched the dreaded move from Wednesday.
  • Stob Coire Gaibhre – peak of the corrie of the goat
  • Looking across the corrie to Baosbheinn Wizard's Hill.
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