13 definitions found for crock

Crock CROCK, n. An earthen vessel; a pot or pitcher; a cup.
CROCK, n. Soot, or the black matter collected from combustion on pots and kettles, or in a chimney.
CROCK, v.t. or I. To black with soot, or other matter collected from combustion; or to black with the coloring matter of cloth.

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

crock
1.
n. & v. colloq.
--n.
1 an inefficient, broken-down, or worn-out person.
2 a worn-out vehicle, ship, etc.
--v.
1 intr. (foll. by up) break down, collapse.
2 tr. (often foll. by up) disable, cause to collapse.
Etymology: orig. Sc., perh. f. Flem.
2.
n.
1 an earthenware pot or jar.
2 a broken piece of earthenware.
Etymology: OE croc(ca)

crock (crocks) 1. A crock is a clay pot or jar. (OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT 2. If you describe someone as an old crock, you mean that they are old and weak. (BRIT INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT 3. If you describe what someone has said as a crock, you mean that you think it is foolish, wrong, or untrue. (mainly AM INFORMAL) N-COUNT: usu sing [disapproval] 4. a crock of gold: see gold

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.

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.

Crock Crock, v. i. To give off crock or smut.

Crock Crock, n. A low stool. ``I . . . seated her upon a little crock.'' --Tatler.

Crock Crock (kr?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. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. --Spenser.

Crock Crock, v. t. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell.

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.

crock I. n. 1. Earthen jar, pot, piece of crockery. 2. Low seat, stool. 3. Soot, smut. II. v. a. Blacken (with soot), soil, smut.

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "crock": adobe, balker, balky horse, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, crockery, crowbait, dog, enamelware, firebrick, garron, glass, goat, hack, jade, jug, jughead, nag, plug, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, roarer, rogue, rosinante, scalawag, stiff, tile, tiling, urn, vase, whistler