griken.

Brit.

/ɡrʌɪk/, U.S.

/ɡraɪk/

Forms: Also gryke.

Etymology: northern dialect: see Eng. Dial. Dict.

A crack or slit in rock, a ravine in a hillside; (Geology) a fissure between clints (clint n. 1(b)).

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fissure or crack

clinta1400

shake1747

grike1781

sun crack1831

mud-crack1853

shrinkage crack1867

1781–1885 in Eng. Dial. Dict.

1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. 437 Bare surface of Carboniferous Lime~stone, near Shap, showing ‘grikes’ or widened joints.

1919 Glasgow Herald 26 Dec. 8 Rock which lay about the ‘grike’ in the crag face.

1925 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Jan. 50/2 The hill-top platforms with deeply eroded crevices called clints or grykes.

1938 A. E. Trueman Scenery Eng. & 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 W. G. Moore Dict. Geogr. (ed. 2) 77 Grike or Clint, a hollow in the surface of the rock in a limestone region, formed when the limestone dissolves in rain water containing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation 402 Clint, a bare, level surface developed on horizontal beds of limestone. The vertical fissures formed by solution along the joints are termed grikes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grike
释义	griken. Brit. /ɡrʌɪk/, U.S. /ɡraɪk/ Forms: Also gryke. Etymology: northern dialect: see Eng. Dial. Dict. A crack or slit in rock, a ravine in a hillside; (Geology) a fissure between clints (clint n. 1(b)). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fissure or crack clinta1400 shake1747 grike1781 sun crack1831 mud-crack1853 shrinkage crack1867 1781–1885 in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1902 Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. 437 Bare surface of Carboniferous Lime~stone, near Shap, showing ‘grikes’ or widened joints. 1919 Glasgow Herald 26 Dec. 8 Rock which lay about the ‘grike’ in the crag face. 1925 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Jan. 50/2 The hill-top platforms with deeply eroded crevices called clints or grykes. 1938 A. E. Trueman Scenery Eng. & 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 W. G. Moore Dict. Geogr. (ed. 2) 77 Grike or Clint, a hollow in the surface of the rock in a limestone region, formed when the limestone dissolves in rain water containing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. 1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation 402 Clint, a bare, level surface developed on horizontal beds of limestone. The vertical fissures formed by solution along the joints are termed grikes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1781
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