Word Meanings - CRANNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. (more info) 1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted

Additional info about word: CRANNY

A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. (more info) 1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRANNY)

• Interstice
• Chink
• interval
• interspace
• cleft
• cranny
• fissure
• gap
• crack

Related words: (words related to CRANNY)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CLEFT
  from Cleave.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• CHINK
  A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.
• CRACK
  cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.
• CRACKLING
  Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6. 2. The well-browned,
• CRACKNEL
  A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.
• CRANNY
  A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc. (more info) 1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted
• CLEFT-FOOTED
  Having a cloven foot.
• CRACKLEWARE
  See 3
• CRACK-LOO; CRACKALOO
  A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
• INTERVAL; INTERVALE
  A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• TWO-CLEFT
  Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
• SCRANNY
  Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.
• HALF-CRACKED
  Half-demented; half-witted.