Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having crevices, chinks, or fissures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having crannies, chinks, or fissures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
crannies .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones)
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Examples
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Eagles and falcons nested in the crannied cliff, symbols of strength and sources of ceremonial feathers, and in the river lived waterfowl, beaver, muskrat and mink.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Eagles and falcons nested in the crannied cliff, symbols of strength and sources of ceremonial feathers, and in the river lived waterfowl, beaver, muskrat and mink.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Eagles and falcons nested in the crannied cliff, symbols of strength and sources of ceremonial feathers, and in the river lived waterfowl, beaver, muskrat and mink.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Eagles and falcons nested in the crannied cliff, symbols of strength and sources of ceremonial feathers, and in the river lived waterfowl, beaver, muskrat and mink.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The little flower in the crannied wall could tell what God and man is.
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When found by the hounds, and the chase has begun, the hare will at times cross streams, bend and double and creep for shelter into clefts and crannied lurking-places; 154 since they have not only the hounds to dread, but eagles also; and, so long as they are yearlings, are apt to be carried off in the clutches of these birds, in the act of crossing some slope or bare hillside.
On Hunting 2007
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Each flat with its refrigerator, in the crannied wall.
Between the Acts 2004
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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.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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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.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Certainly nothing could be gayer, unless to ramble delightfully forever in one of those orange-colored ambrotype-saloons, drawn by milk-white oxen; or to quarter like Gavroche of _Les Miserables_ among the ribs of the plaster elephant in the Bastile; or more pensively to abide in the crannied boat-cabin of the Peggotys, watching the tide sweep out and in.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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