In the course of a ramble on foot in a remote district I came to a small ancient town, set in a cuplike depression amidst high wood-grown hills.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Near about the centre, where the land is most level, an unexpected slope goes down into a cuplike depression.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
She looked down on the cuplike lake, shimmering in the sun below.
"Together"
Robert Herrick (1868-1938)