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Definition of Grikes
1. grike [n] - See also: grike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grikes
Literary usage of Grikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"In Westmorland— 'At 's i' t' grikes o' t' crags. Here the Westmorland is supported
by the Durham, Central Cumberland, North Lancashire (N. Lonsdale), ..."
2. A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the by Robert Backhouse Peacock (1869)
"In Westmorland— 'At 's i' t' grikes o' t' crags. Here the Westmorland is supported
by the Durham, Central Cumberland, North Lancashire (N. Lonsdale), ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"grikes' or widened joints in Carboniferous Limestone. 2412 ( ) Loughrigg Fell,
near Amble- Rugged Fell made of Ordovician, side. ..."
4. The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1902)
"Bare surface of Carboniferous Limestone, near Sbap, showing "grikes" or widened
joints. In calcareous districts the surface is sometimes quite bare and ..."
5. My Life and My Lectures by Lamar Fontaine (1908)
"Cities have sprung above the grikes Where hairy cave-men made war; Our life is
old and our love Is old, And death will come amain; Should it come to-day, ..."
6. The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1902)
"Bare surface of Carboniferous Limestone, near Simp, showing "grikes" or widened
joints. In calcareous districts the surface is sometimes quite bare and ..."
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