Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
CRANNY
cranny
(noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall)
crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap
(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
cranny (plural crannies)
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Verb
cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)
(intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
(intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
Etymology 2
Adjective
cranny (comparative more cranny, superlative most cranny)
(UK, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless
Source: Wiktionary
Cran"ny (krn"n), n.; pl. Crannies (-n. Etym: [F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word).]
1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.
2. (Glass Making)
Definition: A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Cran"ny, v. i. [imp & p. p. Crannied (-nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crannying.]
1. To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.
2. To haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron.
Cran"ny, a. Etym: [Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a. ]
Definition: Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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