crannied

American  

[kran-eed] / ˈkræn id /

adjective

1. having or full of crannies.

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Other Word Forms

• uncrannied adjective

Etymology

Origin of crannied

First recorded in 1400–50, crannied is from the late Middle English word cranyyd. See cranny, -ed ³

Example Sentences

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

His mother, on a stuel, At the crannied hearth prepared his gruel.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various

We think of Tennyson's "little flower in the crannied wall."

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward

I have but now Dismounted; and, from yon sequester'd cot, Whose lonely taper through the crannied wall Sheds its faint beams, and twinkles midst the trees, Have I, adventurous, grop'd my darksome way.

From André by Moses, Montrose Jonas