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Crock   /krɑk/   Listen
noun
Crock  n.  The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.


Crock  n.  A low stool. "I... seated her upon a little crock."


Crock  n.  Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. "Like foolish flies about an honey crock."


Crock  n.  
1.
A person who is worn out with age or illness.
2.
An old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.


crock  n.  Nonsense; balderdash; humbug; usually used in the phrase a crock. (slang)


verb
Crock  v. t.  (past & past part. crocked; pres. part. crocking)  To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.


Crock  v. t.  To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.


Crock  v. i.  To give off crock or smut.





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"Crock" Quotes from Famous Books



... bridled at being so checked in his speech, nevertheless he went straightway to do Robin's bidding; so presently a great crock was brought, and wine was poured out for all the guests and for Robin Hood. Then Robin held his cup aloft. "Stay!" cried he. "Tarry in your drinking till I give you a pledge. Here is to good King Richard of great renown, and may all ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle
... shrewdest species of all those I know personally. It has the strange habit of digging out deep and spacious burrows for concealment, in the perpendicular sandy banks of southern Florida rivers where the deep water comes right up to the shore. Starting well under low-water mark, the crock digs in the yielding sand, straight into the bank, a roomy subterranean chamber. In this snug retreat he once was safe from all his enemies,—until the fatal day when his secret was discovered, and revealed to a grasping world. Since that time, the Alligator Joes of Palm Beach ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... a big skilletful of it, and some eggs along with it, and fetch up a crock of sweet milk, and stir it up ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... bound feet. She lay flat on her back, stuck up her feet, and her husband put a crock a foot in diameter and a foot and a half deep upon them. She set it rolling on her feet until it whirled like a cylinder. She tossed it up in such a way as to have it light bottom side up on her "lillies,"[1] in which position she kept it whirling. Tossing it once more it ...
— The Chinese Boy and Girl • Isaac Taylor Headland
... amazing, Saskia," he said. "I won't pay my old playfellow compliments; besides, you must be tired of them. I wish you happiness all the day long like a fairy-tale Princess. But a crock like me can't do much to help you to it. The service seems to be the wrong way round, for here you are wasting your time ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan


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