Providing vs Grike - What's the difference?
providing | grike |
Something provided; a provision.
* 1869 , Justin Dewey Fulton, The true woman (page 108)
(chiefly, British) A deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants
:* 1922': He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a '''grike . — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
:* 1973': 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. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, ''Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 157)
As nouns the difference between providing and grike
is that providing is something provided; a provision while grike is (chiefly|british) a deep cleft formed in limestone surfaces due to water erosion; providing a unique habitat for plants.As a verb providing
is .providing
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(en noun)- the neglect of domestic duties, on the part of many wives, is, no doubt, attributable to the slovenly tenements, and inadequate providings , and careless neglect of the husbands.