Sc. Also currie, correi, corri, corry. [a. Gaelic coire (pronounced ko·re) cauldron, kettle; hence, whirlpool (as in Corrievreckan Brecan’s cauldron), and circular hollow.] 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.
1795. Statist. Acc. Scot., XVI. 104. The Corries or Curries of Balglass. They are semicircular excavations hollowed out in that ridge of hills.
1807. J. Headrick, Arran, 60. This glen terminates in a circular hollow, or corry.
1814. Scott, Wav., xvi. That little corri, or bottom, on the opposite side of the burn.
1841. Ld. Cockburn, Circuit Journies, 6 Sept. The great corries into which the weather has hollowed one side of most of the mountains [in Skye].
1850. Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., viii. (1872), 251. Left silent in the solitude of some Highland Corry.
1875. Buckland, Log-Bk., 235. The corrie where the deer are lying.
1882. Standard, 23 Aug., 2/1. In Blackmount deer corries there will be good sport.
