Crock

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An earthenware vessel.
  • n. A broken piece of earthenware.
  • n. Slang Foolish talk; nonsense: That story is just a crock.
  • n. Soot.
  • v. To soil with or as if with crock.
  • verb-intransitive. To give off soot or color.
  • n. One that is worn-out, decrepit, or impaired; a wreck.
  • verb-intransitive. To become weak or disabled. Often used with up.
  • v. To disable; wreck. Often used with up.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
  • n. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
  • n. A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
  • n. An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
  • n. Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
  • v. To break something or injure someone.
  • v. To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
  • v. To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
  • v. To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • n. A low stool.
  • n. Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
  • n. a person who is worn out with age or illness.
  • n. an old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.
  • n. nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock.
  • v. To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
  • verb-intransitive. To give off crock or smut.
  • v. To lay up in a crock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
  • n. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  • n. nonsense; foolish talk
  • v. release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
  • v. soil with or as with crock
  • Verb Form
    crocked    crocking    crocks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    jar    c    carbon    atomic number 6    hokum    nonsense    nonsensicality    meaninglessness    bunk    bleed   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    soot    smut    nonsense    balderdash    humbug    dish    jar    pot    pitcher    pig   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bach    Bangkok    Bloch    Block    Brock    Doc    Dock    Glock    Iraq    Jacques   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ewer    jug    platter    tankard    keg    urn    saucer    beaker    pail    tins