Crossword clues for cranny
cranny
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cranny \Cran"ny\, a. [Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a. ]
Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
Cranny \Cran"ny\ (kr[a^]n"n[y^]), n.; pl. Crannies (-n[i^]z).
-
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.
--Dryden.He peeped into every cranny.
--Arbuthnot. (Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Cranny \Cran"ny\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crannied (-n?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crannying.]
-
To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.]
The ground did cranny everywhere.
--Golding. -
To haunt, or enter by, crannies.
All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
--Byron.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., possibly from a diminutive of Middle French cran "notch, fissure" (14c.), from crener "to notch, split," from Medieval Latin crenare, possibly from Latin cernere "to separate, sift" (see crisis). But OED casts doubt on this derivation.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 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. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To break into, or become full of, crannies. 2 (context intransitive English) To haunt or enter by crannies. Etymology 2
(context UK dialect English) quick; giddy; thoughtless
WordNet
Usage examples of "cranny".
Cloudless was the day, and the air clean and sweet, and every nook and cranny was clear to behold from where they stood: there were great jutting nesses with straight-walled burgs at their top-most, and pyramids and pinnacles that no hand of man had fashioned, and awful clefts like long streets in the city of the giants who wrought the world, and high above all the undying snow that looked as if the sky had come down on to the mountains and they were upholding it as a roof.
Soldiers clung to the scaffolding, fish-eyed and blinking, while Bransian waved a fresh cresset toward the cranny that lay dimmest and farthest from the stairshaft.
The Diadem Epeira, or Cross Spider, needs a cranny for hers, which is contained in a non-waterproof felt.
He sighed and went into the washing place, used the water brush to scour away the exuviae from his skin, pulling the folds taut and scrubbing the accumulations from the cracks and crannies of his being.
He had emptied his hiding place under the loose floorboard of all food, double-checked every nook and cranny of his bedroom for forgotten spell books or quills, and taken down the chart on the wall counting down the days to September the first, on which he liked to cross off the days remaining until his return to Hogwarts.
Then another pause and space of utter silence, followed by a blaze of light that dazed and blinded her, and suddenly one of the piled-up columns to her left swayed to and fro like a poplar in a breeze, to fall headlong with a crash which almost mastered the awful crackling of the thunder overhead and the shrieking of the baboons scared from their crannies in the cliff.
Bags of grain and bundles of hay had been compacted into every cranny in hopes of keeping the beasts fed until they reached their new pastures beyond the Western Sea.
Gull would be flying back to Elephant Lagoon to winkle out those sacks of guilders and those bars of gold from whatever nook or cranny Sir Francis had tucked them into.
Up here there were lots of nooks and crannies, tiny bedrooms and only two baths.
Monster, there were no hiding places in that building, no nooks, crannies, or hidey-holes.
And that was Wade and, in some unflossed cranny of her memory, her ex-husband, Ted.
Macy searched his cerebral crannies for Hamlin and could not find him, but left Gomez unphoned anyway.
The Japanese were basically animists-they saw spirits in every nook and cranny of their surroundings.
The Japanese were basically animists—they saw spirits in every nook and cranny of their surroundings.
On the cliffsides the Weavers scuttled for hiding places in the crevices and crannies as a monstrous fiery form came near.