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n. (context idiomatic English) A part of a place, especially small or remote.
Usage examples of "nook or cranny".
His eyes bulged as he saw the huge horse rise up above him once more, and he scrambled and crab-crawled backward, terrified, searching desperately for any nook or cranny that would offer safety from the pummeling hooves.
His eyes bulged as he saw the huge horse rise up above him once more, and he scrambled and crab-crawled backward, terrified, searching desperately for any nook or cranny that would offer safely from the pummeling hooves.
What he had drawn when clocking in at Brinkley Court was the room known as the Blue Room, a signal honour to be accorded to a bachelor guest, amounting to being given star billing, for at Brinkley, as at most country-houses, any old nook or cranny is considered good enough for the celibate contingent.
No matter where or when he might be, in whatever possible extra-dimensional nook or cranny of the entire macro-cosmic universe or in any possible period of time between plus and minus eternity, he couldn't die--he could not possibly die--without my knowing it.
There was no notebook, no pages fluttering in the breeze, no confetti of torn paper, no nook or cranny into which such detritus might have been secreted.
The old Roman glared around the interior of the pavilion, as if searching its unadorned walls for some nook or cranny in which truth lay hidden.
He had a haunting fancy he might be lying disabled or badly smashed in some way in some nook or cranny of the Island.
Then they would retrace their steps and search every nook or cranny in which he might be hiding.
Carlton counted the solemn notes, until the wind interrupted his thoughts, screeching thinly in some unseen nook or cranny of the roof.
There's not a nook or cranny through which the grapevine fails to curl.
The good Chief has sworn that no stone will be left unturned, no nook or cranny in which the desperate outlaw murderer might hide will be overlooked, until the bloodthirsty fiend who perpetrated the foul misdeed has been brought before the Bar of Justice, where he is expected to be sentenced to a well-deserved hanging.