From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crocked} (kr[o^]kt); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Crocking}.]
To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter
of badly dyed cloth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\, v. i.
To give off crock or smut.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\, v. t.
To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\ (kr[o^]k), n. [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit
covered.]
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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\, n.
A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock."
--Tatler.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\ (kr[o^]k), n. [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin
to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka;
but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen
vessel, jar. Cf. {Cruet}.]
Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an
earthen pot or pitcher.
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Like foolish flies about an honey crock. --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crock \Crock\, n.
1. a person who is worn out with age or illness.
[PJC]
2. an old person who complains frequently about illness,
especially imaginary ailments.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
crock \crock\, n.
nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a
crock. [slang]
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crock
n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or
principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments
and ink [syn: {carbon black}, {lampblack}, {soot}, {smut},
{crock}]
2: nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock"
3: an earthen jar (made of baked clay) [syn: {crock},
{earthenware jar}]
v 1: release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
2: soil with or as with crock
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
crock
n.
[from the American scatologism crock of shit]
1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made
cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without
the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix make
(1), which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to {segfault}).
2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure
if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write
an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes
algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular
bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a
dependence on actual opcode values, see The Story of Mel' in Appendix A.)
Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure.
See {kluge}, {brittle}. The adjectives crockish and crocky, and the nouns
crockishness and crockitude, are also used.
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