CRANNY

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("cranny" is a kind of...):

hole (an opening into or through something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long narrow depression in a surface

Synonyms:

chap; crack; cranny; crevice; fissure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("cranny" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

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Context examples:

Had she been fourteen instead of twenty-four, she might have been changed by them; but she was twenty-four, conservative by nature and upbringing, and already crystallized into the cranny of life where she had been born and formed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was the same insularity of mind that made the ancient Jew thank God he was not born a woman, and sent the modern missionary god-substituting to the ends of the earth; and it made Ruth desire to shape this man from other crannies of life into the likeness of the men who lived in her particular cranny of life.