crannied, a.
(ˈkrænɪd)
[f. cranny + -ed2.]
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 Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 159 A wall..That had in it a crannied hole or chinke. |