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Cranny   /krˈæni/   Listen
noun
Cranny  n.  (pl. crannies)  
1.
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. "In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies." "He peeped into every cranny."
2.
(Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.


verb
Cranny  v. i.  (past & past part. crannied; pres. part. crannying)  
1.
To crack into, or become full of, crannies. (R.) "The ground did cranny everywhere."
2.
To haunt, or enter by, crannies. "All tenantless, save to the crannying wind."


adjective
Cranny  adj.  Quick; giddy; thoughtless. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Cranny" Quotes from Famous Books



... English, who took my estates in Piccadilly. Is it not a knavish trick to put justice in motion against me? Ho! Ho! my lord constable, a chamberlain is worth two of you, and I will beat you yet. My dear Petit, I give you permission to search by night and by day, every nook and cranny of my house. But come in here alone, search my room, turn the bed over, do what you like. Only allow me to cover with a cloth or a handkerchief this fair lady, who is at present in the costume of an archangel, in order that you may not know to ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... western machinery, modern mining plants and other evidences of how China is coming out of her shell, cause one to rejoice in improved conditions. The animosity occasioned by these inventions that are being so gradually and so surely introduced into every nook and cranny of East and North China is very marked; but on close inspection, and after one has made a study of the subject, one is inclined to feel that it is more or less theoretical. So it is to be hoped it will be in Szech'wan and Far ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
... nor woman, elderly nor young; the little Irish beggar that comes barefoot to my door; the mouse that steals out of the cranny in the wainscot; the bird that, in frost and snow, pecks at the window for a crumb. I know somebody to whose knee the black cat loves to climb, against whose shoulder and cheek it loves to purr. The old dog always ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
... curious vibrations and throbbings we could hear; of the heavy rumbling and the flash and glow that came from the different works. Some were so lit up that it seemed as if the windows were fiery eyes staring out of the darkness, and more than once we stopped to gaze in at some cranny where furnaces were kept going night and day and the work ...
— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn
... mountains.—Now all therein slept, so even that not a dog barked at the sound of my footsteps. But suddenly, and my soul yet quivers with dismay at the remembrance, a yell of horror tore its way from the throat of every sleeper at once, and shot into every cranny of the many-folded mountains, that my soul knocked shaking against the sides of my body, and I also shrieked aloud with the keen terror of the cry. For surely there was no sleeper there, man, woman, or child, who yelled ...
— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald


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