Meaning of Cranny | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
2. A clerk writing English.
   India, obsolete
3. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
4. A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.
   India, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls”

“[H]e peep'd into every Cranny; ſometimes he admir'd the Beauty of the Architecture, and the vaſt Solidity of the Maſon's VVork; at other Times he commended the Symmetry and Proportion of the Rooms.”

“What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.”

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