grike

plural grikes

1. UKA deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.

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

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 44

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   The Crag is a sort of crag-shaped feature of limestone, rich in minerals and seamed with crevasses or ‘grikes’ as they call them hereabouts.

   1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 157

   Synonyms: scailp