Crevice vs Cranny - What's the difference?
crevice | cranny |
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
* Arbuthnot
* Dryden
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
To break into, or become full of, crannies.
* Golding
To haunt or enter by crannies.
* Byron
Cranny is a synonym of crevice.
As nouns the difference between crevice and cranny
is that crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall while cranny is a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.As verbs the difference between crevice and cranny
is that crevice is to crack; to flaw while cranny is to break into, or become full of, crannies.As an adjective cranny is
quick; giddy; thoughtless.crevice
English
Noun
(en noun)- The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and not a pocket, not a crevice , of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crany, .Noun
(crannies)- 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 .
Verb
- The ground did cranny everywhere.
- All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.