cranny

noun · verb · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

crannies

1.
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
2.
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
3.
(India, obsolete)A clerk writing English.
4.
(India, obsolete)A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

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verb

V_es/s

crannies

V_ing/Gerund

crannying

V_ed/pp

crannied

1.
(intransitive)To break into, or become full of, crannies.
The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
2.
(intransitive)To haunt or enter by crannies.

Từ liên quan

Cùng gốc / liên quan

any nook or crannyevery nook and crannynook and crannynook or cranny

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English crany, crani (cranny), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (notch, fissure), a derivative of crener (to notch, split), from crenō (split), from *crinō (split, break), of obscure origin.