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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



... before her father and her brothers, and took her place as usual, and ate as she might have filled a crock with milk or cakes, tasting nothing which she put into her mouth. She did not during the meal say another word concerning the tragedy in which she was living, but there was a strange silent vehemence ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... the three crocks was brought into the middle of the room. Into one crock was poured fresh water, into another soapy water, and the third was empty. Posy, among the rest, was blindfolded, and led up to the table. She was instructed to dip her fingers into one of the crocks. She felt around, and at last dipped into the one that held the soapy water: ...
— Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... the cool, earthen floor, lifted the cover from a crock of pickled beets, dipped the spoon into the juice and began to rub the colored liquid upon her ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers
... Jerseys was so thick that the cream crock could be lifted up by the wooden spoon used for stirring, by merely plunging it into the crock full of cream and raising it, without touching the crock in any other way. With fifteen cows and heifers in milk on an average, the Jerseys brought me ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... all the passion of an uncontrolled nature. At times he would reach out for the crock of buttermilk that stood beside him and drained a draught of the maddening liquid, till his brain glowed like the coals of the tamarack ...
— Nonsense Novels • Stephen Leacock


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