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crannies

crannies is the plural of cranny.

Meaning of cranny

Noun (1)

cranny (plural crannies)

  1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
    • Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls / The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 208, line 237
  2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.

Noun (2)

cranny (plural crannies)

  1. (India, obsolete) A clerk writing English.
  2. (India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

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Phrases with crannies

Questions about crannies

What is crannies the plural of?
Crannies is the plural of cranny.

Words near crannies in the dictionary

  1. Cranmoor
  2. Cranmore
  3. Cranney
  4. Cranneys
  5. crannied
  6. crannies
  7. cranniversaries
  8. cranniversary
  9. crannock
  10. crannocks
  11. crannog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crannies (page history and authors); cranny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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