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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a long narrow depression in a surface;
[syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap]

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cranny \Cran"ny\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crannied (-n?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crannying.] 1. To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] [1913 Webster] The ground did cranny everywhere. --Golding. [1913 Webster] 2. To haunt, or enter by, crannies. [1913 Webster] All tenantless, save to the crannying wind. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cranny \Cran"ny\, a. [Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a. ] Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cranny \Cran"ny\ (kr[a^]n"n[y^]), n.; pl. Crannies (-n[i^]z). [F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word).] 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. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] He peeped into every cranny. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. (Glass Making) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cranny n 1: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap] 2: a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

131 Moby Thesaurus words for "cranny": abysm, abyss, alcove, arroyo, asylum, bay, bezel, bolt-hole, box canyon, breach, break, cache, canyon, carrel, cavity, chamfer, chap, chase, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, concealment, corner, corrugation, coulee, couloir, cove, cover, covert, coverture, crack, crevasse, crevice, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cut, cwm, dado, dark corner, defile, dell, den, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dugout, engraving, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fluting, foxhole, fracture, funk hole, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, incision, joint, kloof, lair, leak, microgroove, moat, niche, nook, notch, nullah, opening, oriel, pass, passage, rabbet, ravine, recess, refuge, rent, retreat, rifling, rift, rime, roomlet, ruck, rupture, rut, sanctuary, scissure, score, scratch, seam, secret place, slit, slot, snuggery, split, stash, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus, trench, undercovert, valley, void, wadi, well-worn groove, wrinkle