Obs. Also cranel(l, crannell. [app. f. F. cran: see CRANNY; perh. identical with F. crenel (12th c. in Littré), Pr. cranel, dim. of cran, which is however chiefly a term of fortification: see CRENELL, CARNEL.] A small opening or hole; a cranny, crevice, chink.
1533. Q. Cath. Parr, trans. Erasm. Commune Crede, 66. As … lyghte passeth … throughe a cranel or hole.
1579. Fenton, Guicciard., II. (1599), 98. Euery litle hole … yea euen the smallest cranell or creuish.
c. 1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), II. 161. It leaked at certaine crannells.
