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Definition of Cranny
1. Noun. A long narrow depression in a surface.
Generic synonyms: Depression, Impression, Imprint
Derivative terms: Fissure
2. Noun. A small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall).
Definition of Cranny
1. n. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
2. v. i. To crack into, or become full of, crannies.
3. a. Quick; giddy; thoughtless.
Definition of Cranny
1. Noun. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. ¹
2. Noun. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cranny
1. a crevice [n -NIES] : CRANNIED [adj] - See also: crevice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cranny
Literary usage of Cranny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"a cranny, and observed the peers as they, passed. The Errants is little more than
a memorandum of the super-position of the strata ..."
2. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"... every cranny. On the first night of my arrival, the thermometer sunk to the
freezing point; and all the great coats 1 could pile over me, ..."
3. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"... does not offer to build houses and barns thereon, reverencing the splendor of
God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Wilbraham gives " cranny, adj. pleasant, agreeable, or praiseworthy: a cranny
lad" seemingly on the authority of Bailey only; but he is partially borne out ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1891)
"cranny exhibited an ovarian cystic tumour. He removed it from a woman sixty-one
years of age. She made an uninterruptedly good recovery. ..."
6. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"a cranny, and observed the peers as they, passed. The Errants is little more than
a memorandum of the super-position of the strata ..."
7. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"... every cranny. On the first night of my arrival, the thermometer sunk to the
freezing point; and all the great coats 1 could pile over me, ..."
8. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"... does not offer to build houses and barns thereon, reverencing the splendor of
God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny. ..."
9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Wilbraham gives " cranny, adj. pleasant, agreeable, or praiseworthy: a cranny
lad" seemingly on the authority of Bailey only; but he is partially borne out ..."
10. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1891)
"cranny exhibited an ovarian cystic tumour. He removed it from a woman sixty-one
years of age. She made an uninterruptedly good recovery. ..."
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