crannied

[ kran-eed ]

adjective

1. having or full of crannies.

Other Words From

• un·crannied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of crannied¹

First recorded in 1400–50, crannied is from the late Middle English word cranyyd. See cranny, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.

From Literature

We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe.

From New York Times

There is a line in your last volume which I can’t read: the last line but one of the “flower in the crannied wall.”

From Project Gutenberg

The little flower in the crannied wall could tell what God and man is.

From Project Gutenberg

A house, whose tottering chimney, clay and rock, Is seamed and crannied; whose lame door and lock Are bullet-bored; around which, there and here, Are sinister stains.—One dreads to look around.—

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