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cranny
CIDE DICTIONARY
cranny, n. [F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word).].
- A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. [1913 Webster]"In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies." [1913 Webster]"He peeped into every cranny." [1913 Webster]
- A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. [1913 Webster]
cranny, v. i.
- To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [1913 Webster]"The ground did cranny everywhere." [1913 Webster]
- To haunt, or enter by, crannies. [1913 Webster]"All tenantless, save to the crannying wind." [1913 Webster]
Quick; giddy; thoughtless. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cranny, n. (pl. -ies) a chink, a crevice, a crack.
Derivative
crannied adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF cran{eacute} past part. of craner f. cran f. pop.L crena notch
THESAURUS
cranny
abysm, abyss, alcove, arroyo, asylum, bay, bezel, bolt-hole, box canyon, breach, break, cache, canyon, carrel, cavity, chamfer, chap, chase, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, concealment, corner, corrugation, coulee, couloir, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crack, crevasse, crevice, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cut, cwm, dado, dark corner, defile, dell, den, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dugout, engraving, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fluting, foxhole, fracture, funk hole, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, incision, joint, kloof, lair, leak, microgroove, moat, niche, nook, notch, nullah, opening, oriel, pass, passage, rabbet, ravine, recess, refuge, rent, retreat, rifling, rift, rime, roomlet, ruck, rupture, rut, sanctuary, scissure, score, scratch, seam, secret place, slit, slot, snuggery, split, stash, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus, trench, undercovert, valley, void, wadi, well-worn groove, wrinkleROGET THESAURUS
cranny
Interval
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.For further exploring for "cranny" in Webster Dictionary Online
