Cranny
['krænɪ] or ['kræni]
Definition
(noun.) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall).
Editor: Percival--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
(n.) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
(v. i.) To crack into, or become full of, crannies.
(v. i.) To haunt, or enter by, crannies.
(a.) Quick; giddy; thoughtless.
Editor: Madge
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cleft, crack, fissure, chink, crevice, rift, gap, break, broach, interstice, opening.
Typist: Tito
Definition
n. a rent: a chink: a secret place.—v.i. to enter crannies.—adj. Crann′ied having crannies rents or fissures.
Edited by Edward
Examples
- Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me flat on my face behind the stone. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Gerty hid her face from the light, but it pierced to the crannies of her soul. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Verna