cranny

[ kran-ee ]

/ ˈkræn i /

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noun, plural cran·nies.

a small, narrow opening in a wall, rock, etc.; chink; crevice; fissure: They searched every nook and cranny for the missing ring.

a small out-of-the-way place or obscure corner; nook.

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Origin of cranny

1400–50; late Middle English crany, perhaps <Middle French crené, past participle of crener to notch, groove; see crenel

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH cranny

cranny , nook

Words nearby cranny

cranky, Cranmer, crannequin, crannied, crannog, cranny, cranreuch, Cranston, Cranwell, crap, crap around

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How to use cranny in a sentence

Don’t overlook the tiny nooks and crannies of food compartments.
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“We’re busy getting Bob into every nook and cranny,” Kowalski said in an interview.
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Additional imaging with a 3D or 4D Doppler would allow a physician to evaluate the nooks and crannies of the fetus and the cord.
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While most highly-automated warehouses are built around machines from the start, Stretch will be able to roll into corners and crannies not designed for automation and get to work.
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Keep going around the artichoke, filling every nook and cranny.
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Rawashda is holding his laptop as he points out every nook and cranny of his studio apartment.
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Unlike the three-walled sets of Hollywood soundstages, this is made for every nook and cranny to be filmed.
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Those scenes that are just in every nook and cranny at the Grand Ole Opry, that to me is the beauty of the show.
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Mousack is piped into every nook and cranny of the damn ship: the elevators, the restaurants, the hallways.
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The old miner set the machine working, and the light flashed into every nook and cranny of the subterranean cavern.
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There was not one nook or cranny into which that ruthless self-knowledge could not throw its cruel glare.
The Daughters of Danaus|Mona Caird
It was his theory of Duty, expanded till it penetrated 57 every cranny of the individual soul.
The Life of Mazzini|Bolton King
There was no cranny in the rocks too small for them to reconnoiter with caution.
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Are we wise to hide from life, like a lizard in a cranny of a wall?
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British Dictionary definitions for cranny

cranny

/ (ˈkrænɪ) /

noun plural -nies

a narrow opening, as in a wall or rock face; chink; crevice (esp in the phrase every nook and cranny)

Derived forms of cranny

crannied, adjective

Word Origin for cranny

C15: from Old French cran notch, fissure; compare crenel

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cranny

see nook and cranny.

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