crannyとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæni/
• 韻: -æni

名詞

cranny (複数形 crannies)

1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 10:

     What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.

   • c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     He peeped into every cranny.

   • 1697, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, line 237, page 208:

     Down thro the Cranies of the living Walls
     The Crystal Streams descend in murm'ring Falls

2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.

関連する語

• any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny

動詞

cranny (三人称単数 現在形 crannies, 現在分詞 crannying, 過去形および過去分詞形 crannied)

1. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333

     The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.

2. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
   • 181, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, canto XLVII, (please specify the stanza number):

     All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.