n. 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.n. A fragment of earthenware; a potsherd, such as is used to cover the hole in the bottom of a flower-pot.To lay up in a crock: as, to crock butter.n. 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.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.n. A low seat; a stool.n. A little curl of hair; in the plural, the under hair on the neck.n. Same as crook, 7.To decrease; decay.n. An old ewe.n. In cricket, a worthless player.