Definition of crocks Crocks
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What does crocks mean?
Wiktionary 
- crocks (Noun)
Plural of crock.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: crocks |
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| crock - an earthen jar (made of baked clay) | ||
| earthenware jar | ||
| jar a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles | ||
| crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" | ||
| crock - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | ||
| carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut | ||
| atomic number 6, carbon, c a copy made with carbon paper | ||
Verb |
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| crock - soil with or as with crock | ||
| begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" | ||
| crock - release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric | ||
| bleed, run draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment" | ||
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Wiktionary
- crock (Noun)
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. - crock (Noun)
A piece of broken pottery, a shard. - crock (Noun)
A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. - crock (Noun)
An old or broken-down vehicle and formerly a horse. - crock (Noun)
Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. - crock (Verb)
To break something or injure someone. - crock (Verb)
To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. - crock (Verb)
To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. - crock (Verb)
To store butter, etc. in a crock.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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 (v. t.)
To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. - crock (v. i.)
To give off crock or smut. - crock (n.)
A low stool. - crock (n.)
Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. - crock (v. t.)
To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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crock
krok, n. a pot or jar.—n. Crock′ery, earthenware: vessels formed of baked clay. [A.S. croc; Ger. krug; perh. of Celt. origin, as in W. crochan, a pot, Gael. krogan, a pitcher.] -
crock
krok, n. dirt, smut.—v.i. to dirty -
crock
krok, n. an old ewe: an old horse. [Cf. Norw. and Sw. krake, a poor beast.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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crock
[Anglo-Saxon, croca]. An earthen mess-vessel, and the usual vegetables were called crock-herbs. In the Faerie Queene Spenser cites the utensil:-- "Therefore the vulgar did aboute him flocke, Like foolish flies about an honey-crocke."
