crannied
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of crannied
First recorded in 1400–50, crannied is from the late Middle English word cranyyd. See cranny, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
If the flower in the crannied wall, if even a single atom of matter, present mysteries which the most profound intellect cannot solve, how is it possible for man to comprehend the universe?
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont
The flower in the crannied wall he would leave there.
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps
Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underworld darkness.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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