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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



... nearby there's a sink With everybody's cup. There's a rope and there's a slide Zzzip! but there's a slide. There are shelves and shelves and shelves With colored silk and beads, With paper and with crayons, And a great big crock with clay. And the're blocks and blocks and blocks And blocks and blocks and blocks And the're horses there and wagons And cows and dogs and sheep, And men and women, boys and girls With clothes upon them too. And then the're cars to make a train With engine and caboose.[B] ...
— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell

... for sheer idle joy Of their mad bathing-revel. Then the crow With full voice, good-for-naught, inviting rain, Stalks on the dry sand mateless and alone. Nor e'en the maids, that card their nightly task, Know not the storm-sign, when in blazing crock They see the lamp-oil sputtering with a growth Of mouldy snuff-clots. So too, after rain, Sunshine and open skies thou mayst forecast, And learn by tokens sure, for then nor dimmed Appear the stars' keen edges, nor the moon As borrowing of her brother's ...
— The Georgics • Virgil

... to yer, guvnor!" he shouted out, in valedictory fashion. "'Ope I meets yer again when I've an old crock on the go." ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... 'Forty-niner,' Jessie darlin, and be happy. We're all mighty comfortable in here and lots of good victuals, if so be we get hungry. Plenty to drink, too, for I just brought in a crock of fresh water to cool my eggs in. I've got my knittin' work and am as happy as an oyster. Go back, for I ain't ready to talk yet. When I am I'll come out and bring these naughty children ...
— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond

... good o' foolish tunes, the moilin' folks 'ud say, It's better teach the children work an' get the crock o' gold; Thin sorra take their wisdom whin it makes them sad an' gray,— A man is fitter have a song that never lets him old. A stave of "Gillan's Apples" or a snatch of "Come Along With Me" Will warm the cockles o' your heart, ...
— Ballads of Peace in War • Michael Earls


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