grike

/ ɡraɪk /

noun

1. a solution fissure, a vertical crack about 0.5 m wide formed by the dissolving of limestone by water, that divides an exposed limestone surface into sections or clints

Word History and Origins

Origin of grike¹

C20 in geological sense: from northern dialect

Example Sentences

Sloane shows how to build a house without a nail in it that will go up and stay up for hundreds of years, how to make a bottle-glass window, a fieldstone grike, a folding ladder, a wooden tub, a cider press.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the same grimy giant who had accosted her on the lonely road near Deadman's Grike.

From Project Gutenberg

A big black fella, as high as the kipples, came out o' the wood near Deadman's Grike, just after the sun gaed down yester e'en; I knew weel what he was, for his feet ne'er touched the road while he made as if he walked beside me.

From Project Gutenberg

"That will be the same fella I sid at Deadman's Grike," said Mall Carke, with an anxious frown.

From Project Gutenberg

He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike.

From Project Gutenberg