• IPA: /ˈkɹæni/

cranny (plural crannies)

1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗:

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

   • He peeped into every cranny.

   • In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies.

2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.

• any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny

• German: Spalt, Versteck
• Russian: щель
• Spanish: recoveco

cranny (crannies, present participle crannying; past and past participle crannied)

1. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333

     The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.

2. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.

   • All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

cranny

1. (UK, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless