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Crock   /krɑk/   Listen
Crock

noun
1.
A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.  Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, smut, soot.
2.
Nonsense; foolish talk.
3.
An earthen jar (made of baked clay).  Synonym: earthenware jar.
verb
(past & past part. crocked; pres. part. crocking)
1.
Release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric.
2.
Soil with or as with crock.



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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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