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

Tennyson will make appeal to "The flower in the crannied wall" by way of silencing the agnostic's prating against God.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

Just as the comprehensive explanation of 'the flower in the crannied wall' is the explanation of the whole universe, so every question is but a thin layer of ice over infinite depths.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

Lilly, with the mysterious tenacity of a crannied flower, was pulling from her soil toward the light.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie