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grike|graɪk|
Also gryke.
[north. dial.: see Eng. Dial. Dict.]
A crack or slit in rock, a ravine in a hill-side; spec. in Geol., a fissure between clints (clint n. 1 b).
1781–1885in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1902Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. 437 Bare surface of Carboniferous Lime⁓stone, near Shap, showing ‘grikes’ or widened joints. 1919Glasgow Herald 26 Dec. 8 Rock which lay about the ‘grike’ in the crag face. 1925[see clint n. 1]. 1938A. E. Trueman Scenery England & Wales xi. 160 Wide, level stretches of bare light-coloured limestone, with the joint planes enlarged by the solvent action of rain so that wide, irregular chasms (known as clints or grikes) trench the surface. 1952,1963[see clint n. 1]. |