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Cranny   /krˈæni/   Listen
noun
Cranny  n.  (pl. crannies)  
1.
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. "In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies." "He peeped into every cranny."
2.
(Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.


verb
Cranny  v. i.  (past & past part. crannied; pres. part. crannying)  
1.
To crack into, or become full of, crannies. (R.) "The ground did cranny everywhere."
2.
To haunt, or enter by, crannies. "All tenantless, save to the crannying wind."


adjective
Cranny  adj.  Quick; giddy; thoughtless. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Cranny" Quotes from Famous Books



... and suddenly, as he raised his hands and wrung them, his knees began to quiver. It was evident that the man was badly, terribly afraid—and as they watched him in amazed wonder his eyes began to search the shore and the cliffs as if he were some hunted animal seeking any hole or cranny in which to hide. A sudden swelling of the light wind brought the steady throb of the oncoming engines to his ears and he turned on Vickers with a look that made ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... none too soon. The frightened cortege had not left the palace far behind it before the maddened citizens burst open its doors, searched every nook and cranny of the building for the queen and her body-guard, and, finding they had fled, wreaked their wrath on all that was left, plundering the apartments of ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... him without much danger, standing as I did well above him, while his eyes were steadfastly bent downward. And, not content with eyesight only, he seemed to be feeling every blade of grass or weed, every single stick or stone, craning into each cranny of the ground, and probing every clod with his hands. Then, after vainly searching with the very utmost care all the space from the hawthorn trunk to the meadow-leet (which was dry as usual), he ran, in a fury of impatience, to his rod, which he had stuck into the bank, as ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... effects and consequents of the first transgression upon all mankind. The effect is twofold,—sin and misery, or sin and death. The subject is universal in both,—"all men," the whole world. Behold what a flood of calamity hath entered at a small cranny—by one man's transgression! May it not be said of sin in general, what the wise man speaks of strife,—"the beginning of" sin "is as when one letteth out water?" Therefore it had been good leaving it oft before it had been ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... the wind blew with bitter keenness through every chink and cranny, roaring and whistling round the bare gray house, rattling the doors and windows with every angry gust. In the little parlour at the back of the house it was not heard so plainly. A bright fire burned in the grate, and the ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine


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