1. Having crannies or chinks.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 100. Cranyyd, rimatus.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 137. Their hornes large cranied, and blacke.
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. xxxix. 76. As a Raine doth drench The crannied Earth.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. i. 339. A … fruit … not unlike a Citron, but somewhat rougher, chopt and cranied.
1870. Tennyson. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies.
2. Of the formation of a cranny.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., V. i. 159. A wall … That had in it a crannied hole or chinke.
