[f. CRANNY sb.1]

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  † 1.  intr. To open in crannies or chinks. Obs.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 100. Cranyyn’, rimo.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., II. (1593), 35. The ground did cranie everywhere, and light did pierce to hell.

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1607.  Barksted, Mirrha (1876), 51. The ground did crannie.

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  2.  To penetrate into crannies. rare.

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1816.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. xlvii. All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

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1873.  Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, vi. (1881), 21. Eyes that crannied not, like a crane’s bill, into the family crocks and dust-bin.

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