Cranny

Quick meaning: Cranny is a noun meaning A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

Meaning

A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

More Meanings

1. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
2. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
3. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
4. (India, obsolete) A clerk writing English.
5. (India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

Example Sentences

All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.

Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls

What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.

Word Forms

• crannies
• crannying
• crannied

Synonyms for cranny

Depending on context, synonyms include crack, fissure, crevice, chap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crevice, fissure, crack, chap, nook, recess.

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