1. cranny(n = noun.shape) chap, crack, crevice, fissure - a long narrow depression in a surface;
is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
2. cranny(n = noun.object) - a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall);
is a kind of hole
1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. [1913 Webster]
"In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies." [1913 Webster]
"He peeped into every cranny." [1913 Webster]
2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. [1913 Webster]
1. To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [1913 Webster]
"The ground did cranny everywhere." [1913 Webster]
2. To haunt, or enter by, crannies. [1913 Webster]
"All tenantless, save to the crannying wind." [1913 Webster]
Quick; giddy; thoughtless. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
cranny, n. (pl. -ies) a chink, a crevice, a crack.
Derivative:
crannied adj.
Etymology:
ME f. OF cran{eacute} past part. of craner f. cran f. pop.L crena notch
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.