cwm
Americannoun
noun
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(in Wales) a valley
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geology another name for cirque
Etymology
Origin of cwm
1850–55; < Welsh: valley. See combe
Vocabulary lists containing cwm
Example Sentences
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With careful negotiation and navigation through the crevasse fields within the cwm we will collect snow samples at the surface and subsurface as well as make reflectivity measurements using a handheld spectrometer.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 7, 2014
July 18.—Yesterday's plan carried out—to move up a camp with light tents and make a big push over into the West cwm; eight coolies to carry the loads.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
Cwm y Llan.—This large cwm stretches away from Snowdon top to the south-east between Yr Aran and Lliwedd.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
Other deaths have taken place in this cwm, for which see under Lliwedd and Clogwyn y Garnedd.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
All our deeper hollows are called the same at home, and even the Welsh have the word, but they spell it cwm; it is their mountain way.
From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire
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