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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



... every side stretched long aisles pillared with the clean red trunks of the pine trees wrought in network pattern. At their feet raged the Goat, foaming out his futile fury at the unmoved black rocks. Up the rocky sides from the water's edge, bravely clinging to nook and cranny, running along ledges, hanging trembling to ragged edges, boldly climbing up to the forest, were all spring's myriad tender things wherewith she redeems Nature from winter's ugliness. From the river below came gusts of misty wind, waves ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor
... so disreputable, that he at once made up his mind that here at last was the thief for whom they had waited so long in vain. The man's wild, roving eye, that seemed to search out every corner and cranny in the place and rest nowhere for longer than a second at a time, added to Delore's suspicions. The unsavoury visitor was evidently spying out the land, and Adolph felt certain he would do no business with him at that particular ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... parallel to, and about fifteen yards away from, the wire. It is subdivided to form a dressing-room and a place for the shower baths, every exit being strongly barred, and a sentry stationed at the door. After a minute inspection of every nook and cranny, I found that it was just possible, by standing upright, to squeeze into an alcove, about eleven inches deep and a foot wide, in an angle formed by a wall and the brickwork of a chimney ...
— 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany • Gerald Featherstone Knight
... began to look under the leaves and under the bark. They pawed around in the grass, they hunted in every nook and cranny, but not a nut could they find. They were tired and cross and hot and they accused Billy Mink of having hidden the nuts. Billy Mink stoutly insisted that he had not hidden the nuts, that he had not found the nuts, and when they saw how hard he was hunting ...
— Old Mother West Wind • Thornton W. Burgess
... not go to bed, or even undress, for she knew that Ishmael was locked out; and so she threw a light shawl around her, and seated herself at the open back window, which from its high point of view commanded every nook and cranny of the back grounds, to watch until Ishmael should wake up and approach the house, so that she might go down and admit him quietly, without disturbing the servants and exciting their curiosity and conjectures. No one should ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth


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