crockn.1
/krɒk/, U.S. /krɑk/ 1. An earthen pot, jar, or other vessel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > earthenware vessel
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olla1535
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cruche1856
figuline1878
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 238 Do [the herbs] on anne niwne croccan.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 156 Kulle al ut þet is iðe krocke.
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles ii. 52 Cast adoun the crokk the colys amyd.
1542 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) For a crock to put mylk in jd.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. N7 The vulgar did about him flocke..Like foolish flies about an hony crocke . View more context for this quotation
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 63 Crock, an Earthen pot to put butter or the like in.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 37. ⁋3 His Whip throws down a Cabinet of China: He cries, What! Are your Crocks rotten?
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. ii. 121 Her only furniture An earthen crock or two.
2. A pot of iron or other metal. (English regional (south-western).)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > metal vessel
fatc1330
crockc1475
c1475 Exeter Tailors' Gild in Eng. Gilds 320 A brasen krocke of ij galons and more, a pache clowted in the brem with laten.
1605 in T. P. Wadley Notes Wills Orphan Bk. Bristol (1886) 269 The lesser brasse Crocke.
1746 Exmoor Courtship 24 Thare be more..than can boil tha Crock.
1885 E. C. Sharland Ways & Means in Devonshire Village 60 A pie made in a crock—the big kettle you see hanging over the fire in farm-houses.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Crock..a cast-iron cooking-pot only... It has a loose bow-handle..and three little legs.
3. A broken piece of earthenware, a potsherd, such as is used to cover the hole in a flowerpot.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > fragment or part of
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pot-shell1865
1850 Florist 84 Turn it out of the pot, remove the crocks.
1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 10 Put plenty of crocks to reach one-third of the height of the pot.
Compounds
C1. crock-butter.
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1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Crock-butter, butter salted and put down in a crock for winter use.
C2.
crockman n. a seller of crockery.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of dishes or pots
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crateman1686
crockman1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 44/1 His avocation as a crockman.
crock-saw n. an iron bar with teeth like a saw, suspended over a fireplace to carry ‘crocks’ or pots.
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1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiv. 166 Master Huckaback stood up, without much aid from the crock-saw.
crock-stick n. a stick used to stir a pot, support the lid, etc.; a ‘thivel’.
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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626/8 Contus, crokstyke.
1792 J. Wolcot Ode to Acad. Chair in Wks. (1812) III. 49 Get thyself to Skewers and Crock-sticks turn'd.
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Originally U.S.
a. crock of shit n. coarse slang . (a) a lot of nonsense, a pack of lies; (b) an atrocious or undesirable state of affairs.In quot. 1944 with sugar used euphemistically for shit (cf. sugar n. Additions).
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1944 Stars & Stripes (Mediterranean ed.) 18 Oct. 4/3 I think it's a crock of sugar.]
c1947 T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) 254 Dat's a crock of sheet! We no get racial equality een Hawaii.
1957 K. Williams Diary 7 Aug. (1993) 135 What an incredible lot of amateurs I am among! What a crock of shit.
1985 J. Adams Good Intentions xxi. 162 That was sure a crock of shit—Peggy knew all right.
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) viii. 197 Cook was grateful for death—considering what a crock of shit his life had become.
b. Short for crock of shit n. (a) at Additions a.
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1945 Yank 3 Aug. 14/1 ‘That,’ observed Winters softly, ‘is a crock.’ Haddington's lips silently finished the phrase.
1970 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 5 Sept. 8/5 There's this guy in the Woodstock movie ads who testifies that his life will never be the same because he was present at the great Rock Outpouring. What a crock!
2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? ix. 116 The thing about single women over the age of twenty-five never getting any offers is a complete crock.
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crock pot n. Cookery (originally U.S.) (originally) = sense 1; (now) spec. (also with capital initials) (a proprietary name for) a lidded pot with an integral electrical heating element, for cooking food at low temperatures for long periods; a slow cooker.
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1945 A. V. Manning in B. A. Botkin Lay my Burden Down ii. 97 It ain't a bit cold in that place, and we didn't have no fire 'cepting to cook, and sometimes a little charcoal fire in some crock pots that the people left.
1956 Daily Jrnl. (Commerce, Texas) 15 Feb. 3/2 After selecting the plant the pot to use should be selected... A crock pot is best as it doesn't freeze so easily in winter.
1971 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 11 Mar. 14 (advt.) The Crock Pot... For slow electric cookery.
1994 Canad. Geographic July 58/3 Traditional..fare made of potatoes, barley and stuffed derma, or intestines, which have been stewing in a crock pot since Friday.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
crockn.2
/krɒk/, U.S. /krɑk/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
Smut, soot, dirt.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > grime, soot, or coal dirt
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smutch1791
brook1825
stokers1899
1657 H. Crouch Welsh Traveller 496 Was all bedawb'd hurself with crock.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 63 Crock, to black one with soot or black of a pot or kettle or chimney-stock, this black or soot is also substantively called Crock.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. vii. 109 The boy grimed with crock and dirt.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Crock, a smut or smudge.
1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 665/1 New England expressions here are..‘You have a crock on your nose’, for a smut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
crockn.3
/krɒk/, U.S. /krɑk/, Scottish English /krɔk/ Chiefly Scottish.
1. An old ewe, or one that has ceased bearing. Also crock ewe.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > old
crock1528
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > unfit for or unable to breed or inferior
crock1528
freemartina1722
draft ewe1794
shot1796
draft1844
yeld1856
1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 893 Quho wyll go sers amang sic heirdis scheip, May habyll fynd mony pure scabbit crok.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niiv/1 A Crocke, shepe, adaria.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 182 Twa croks that moup amang the heather.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 70 Wha will tent the waifs and crocks?
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 139 The crock ewes.
2. An old broken-down horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > inferior or old and worn-out
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Rosinante1641
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kadisha1817
dunghill1833
pelter1854
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caster1859
plug1860
knacker1864
plug horse1872
crock1879
skate1894
robbo1897
1879 Daily News 7 Mar. 6/1 I was riding a broken-kneed old crock.
1892 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Nevermore III. xxii. 131 That horse of hers..I'd like to have..instead of my old crock.
3. slang. Used contemptuously of persons. Now usually a broken-down or physically debilitated person; an invalid; a hypochondriac. colloquial or dialect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
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asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
1876 O. Madox-Brown Dwale Bluth II. v. 158 Hare sher cumes at learst... Th'little doiling crock!
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 25 Crock, sb. a derisive term for a person who fancies himself ailing or delicate.
1889 Illustr. Bits 13 July 4/2 You are getting a bit of a crock—failing fast, I should say.
1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 215/1 Crock, a worthless animal; a fool; said of a horse it signifies a good-for-nothing brute; of a man or woman, a duffer, a 'rotter'.
1920 R. Macaulay Potterism iv. iii. 149 Shall we be a race of clever crocks, or..be robust imbeciles?
1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment iv. 58 Chance ..gave me the job of marching parties of crocks, total and partial, real, half-real, and sham, across..to the place where the faculty did its endeavour to sort them.
1969 Sci. Amer. Feb. 69/2 Physicians..blame the patient by labeling him a ‘crock’—medical slang for a neurotic complainer.
4. slang. An old, worn-out vehicle, ship, bicycle, etc.; esp. as old crock.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > old or useless vessel
hull1582
coffin1833
ballyhoo1836
old lady1841
rack-heap1850
wreck1896
crock1903
rust bucket1944
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > old, worn-out
crock1903
struggle-buggy1925
heap1926
crate1928
jalopy1929
clunker1930
junker1932
iron1935
fixer-upper1948
bomb1953
banger1962
hooptie1968
skedonk1970
gambo1971
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > bicycle > old worn out
crock1903
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > old aircraft
crate1928
crock1935
1903 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 123 But if those cruisers are crocks, why does the Admiral let 'em out of Weymouth at all?
1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 116 An old crock of a 1904 six-cylinder car.
1914 A. Bennett Price of Love xii. 242 I'm going to buy you a bike. I've had enough of that old crock I borrowed for you.
1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come ix. 71 I understand you want all of these out-of-date crocks of yours..to fly again.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 55 When boys see an antiquated machine [sc. bicycle] they shout:..‘Sell that crock and buy a bike.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† crockn.4
Obsolete. Hawking.
= croak n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of hawks
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crock1614
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1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. i. 78 Whereof commeth the Crocke and diuers other diseases.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ The Crock, morbus accipitrum.
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crock v.3
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > of birds: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > disorders of hawks
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crock1614
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xxviii. 124 A Hawke..before shee cold be conueniently taken to the fist, hath euen crockt againe and againe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
crockn.5
/krɒk/, U.S. /krɑk/ Obsolete or dialect.
(See quots.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam
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side-waver1451
wind-balk1532
roof beam1551
post1567
crock1570
spercil1570
collar-beam1659
camber1679
top-beam1679
camber-beam1721
jack rafter1736
hammer-beam1823
tie-beam1823
spar-piece1842
viga1844
collar1858
spanner1862
cruck1898
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Nii v/1 Ye Croks of a house, bijuges.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Crockes, two crooked timbers, of a natural bend, forming a Gothic arch. They generally rest in large blocks of stone. Many roofs of this construction are still remaining in ancient farm-houses and barns.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Crooks, the main timbers of an old black and white house.
1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield 15 Cruks, the arched oaken timbers which support the roofs of some old houses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† crockn.6
Obsolete or ? dialect.
? A low stool.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > support or rest > [noun] > for feet
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stoola1250
benchc1405
buffet1432
foot cushiona1475
footstool1530
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grest1563
foot stock1567
hassock1582
cracket1635
crock1709
tuffet1805
mora1818
footrest1833
toe-board1892
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > low
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coppy14..
buffet1432
cricket1559
cracket1635
creepie1661
crock1709
donkey1943
donkey stool1945
1709 Tatler No. 116. ⁋1 I..seated her upon a little Crock at my Left Hand.
Cf. 1873 J. Harland Gloss. Words Swaledale Crocket, a small wooden stool.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
crockv.1
Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To put up in a crock or pot; see also quot. 1887.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles
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kit1769
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pannier1804
vial1805
flask1855
tub1889
ampoule1946
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii. sig. Ev Wit would worke like waxe, and crocke vp gold like honnie.
1859 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 20 i. 51 Butter is crocked for winter supply.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Crock, to put away; lay by; save up; hide..‘Crocking it [butter] up till it's no use to nobody.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
crockv.2
Obsolete exc. dialect.figurative.c1680 E. Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism in Wks. (1716) I. 20 He crocks every Man in the mouth (with his Pen) that stands in the way of Popish Designs.
1. transitive. To smut with soot or grime; to soil, defile.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > begrime
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begrimea1556
be-smut1610
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crock1642
bruckle1691
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 860 Suffers them to be crockt among the pots.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 275 The Collier and Fuller..what one cleanseth the other will crock and smutch.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 63 Crock, to black one with soot or black of a pot or kettle or chimney-stock, this black or soot is also substantively called Crock.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlii. 413 Without blacking and crocking myself.
1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner II. xxii. 117 They'll ‘crock’ your fingers.
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2. intransitive. To give off ‘crock’ or smut. (In modern dictionaries.)
3. To impart colour or dye to other articles, to stain: said also of the colour.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [verb (intransitive)] > run
run1560
strike?1790
crock1855
bleed1862
1855 Knickerbocker 45 566 A pair of green gloves..had ‘crocked off’ very generously to whatever was in contact with them.
1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. 322 The clear colours do not ‘crock’ so easily, and the little that does come off is hardly noticeable.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 3/1 This black is perfectly fast color and will not crock.
Derivatives
crocked adj.
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1642 D. Rogers Naaman 355 He shall take thee from among the crokt pots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
crockv.4
colloquial.
intransitive. To become feeble, collapse, give way, break down. Also transitive, to cause to collapse; to injure or disable. Often with up.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)]
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damnify?a1562
injury1579
aggrievea1716
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > be decayed > decay > from age
crock1846
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > break down, collapse, or faint
fail?c1225
swoonc1290
languisha1325
talmc1325
sinkc1400
faintc1440
droopc1540
collapse1879
crock1893
to flake (out)1942
1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) I. 114 Crock, to grow little in bulk, to suffer decay from age.
1893 Idler Mar. 221 An oarsman who is likely to ‘crock up’.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 2/1 Smith has crocked his knee.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 8/2 The northern player, who is less likely to get ‘crocked’ than the Richmond man.
1906 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 7/5 He had his knee crocked last season.
1926 Spectator 12 June 983/1 Dressing is accomplished quickly considering my crocked-up hand.
1960 Times 22 Oct. 8/6 I had ‘crocked’ my knee at hockey.
Derivatives
crocked adj.1 hurt, damaged, disabled.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective]
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misfaringa1500
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crocked1906
bummed1907
1906 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 9/7 He limped out to bat, after remaining in obscurity as a crocked player for half a day.
crocking n. collapsing, breaking down.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > becoming
swooningc1290
languishingc1384
droopingc1400
fainting1601
flagging1611
sinking1625
jading1641
collapsing1855
crocking1928
1928 Observer 19 Feb. 28/6 Slogging home against the present stream would safeguard a crew against crocking later on.
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