cranny
cranny is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
- 2.To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.
- 3.To haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron.
- 4.Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abra
- absence
- abysm
- abyss
- barranca
- between
- breach
- breachy
- break
- caesura
- canon
- chap
- chasm
- chink
- cleft
- clove
- crack
- creek
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- defile
- dike
- far
- fissure
- flaw
- frith
- furrow
- gap
- gape
- gash
- gorge
- gulch
- gulf
- gully
- ha-ha
- hiatus
- hole
- incompleteness
- inlet
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is cranny.
- What is a tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc called?
- What is to crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding called?
- What is to haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron called?
- What is quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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