Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
3. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
4. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
5. (India, obsolete) A clerk writing English.
6. (India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

Example Sentences

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

[H]e peep'd into every Cranny; ſometimes he admir'd the Beauty of the Architecture, and the vaſt Solidity of the Maſon's VVork; at other Times he commended the Symmetry and Proportion of the Rooms.

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

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

All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

Word Forms

• crannies
• crannying
• crannied

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Use cranny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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