Crock

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  • noun. Soot.
  • intransitive verb. To soil with or as if with crock.
  • intransitive verb. To give off soot or color.
  • noun. One that is worn-out, decrepit, or impaired; a wreck.
  • intransitive verb. To become weak or disabled. Often used with up.
  • intransitive verb. To disable; wreck. Often used with up.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An earthenware vessel.
  • noun. A broken piece of earthenware.
  • noun. Foolish talk; nonsense.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An earthen vessel; a pot or jar (properly earthen, but also sometimes of iron, brass, or other metal) used as a receptacle for meal, butter, milk, etc., or in cooking.
  • noun. A fragment of earthenware; a potsherd, such as is used to cover the hole in the bottom of a flower-pot.
  • To black with soot or other matter collected from combustion; by extension, to soil in any similar way, particularly by contact with imperfectly dyed cloth: as, to crock one's hands.
  • To give off crock, smut, or color: as, stockings warranted not to crock.
  • noun. Soot, or the black matter collected from combustion on pots and kettles or in a chimney; smut in general, as from coloring matter in cloth.
  • noun. A little curl of hair; in the plural, the under hair on the neck.
  • noun. Same as crook, 7.
  • noun. An old ewe.
  • To decrease; decay.
  • To lay up in a crock: as, to crock butter.
  • noun. A low seat; a stool.
  • noun. In cricket, a worthless player.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock.
  • noun. a person who is worn out with age or illness.
  • noun. an old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.
  • noun. Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
  • noun. 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.
  • transitive verb. To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
  • intransitive verb. To give off crock or smut.
  • transitive verb. To lay up in a crock.
  • noun. A low stool.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  • noun. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  • noun. A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
  • noun. An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
  • noun. Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  • verb. To break something or injure someone.
  • verb. To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  • verb. To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  • verb. To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
  • noun. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  • noun. nonsense; foolish talk
  • verb. release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
  • verb. soil with or as with crock
  • Word Usage
    "The au jus and little bits of meat and veggies left in the crock is an excellent starter for a pot of vegetable soup also."
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    Bach  Bangkok  Bloch  Block  Brock  
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    crocked  crocking  crocks