CRANNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cranny mean? 

• CRANNY (noun)
  The noun CRANNY has 2 senses:

1. a long narrow depression in a surface

2. a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)

  Familiarity information: CRANNY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long narrow depression in a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

chap; crack; cranny; crevice; fissure

Hypernyms ("cranny" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("cranny" is a kind of...):

hole (an opening into or through something)

 Context examples 

It was lined with hardtack; the mattress was stuffed with hardtack; every nook and cranny was filled with hardtack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was in that rare and blissful state wherein a man sees his dreams stalk out from the crannies of fantasy and become fact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He cannot melt into thin air nor disappear through cracks or chinks or crannies.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

While the Martian environment is considered harsh for many organisms, that’s not necessarily the case for all of them—particularly microbes that might be hiding within the nooks and crannies of a robotic explorer.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)

Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me flat on my face behind the stone.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His was a fluid organism, swiftly adjustable, capable of flowing into and filling all sorts of nooks and crannies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We made an accurate examination of the place, the Professor saying as we began:—"The first thing is to see how many of the boxes are left; we must then examine every hole and corner and cranny and see if we cannot get some clue as to what has become of the rest."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

About life and the books he knew more than they, and he wondered into what nooks and crannies they had cast aside their educations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)