CROCK DEFINITIONS - 13 definitions found
Websters 1828 Dictionary 
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.
WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) 
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
Oxford English Reference Dictionary 
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)
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary 
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
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
Crock \Crock\, v. i.
To give off crock or smut.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
Crock \Crock\, n.
A low stool. ``I . . . seated her upon a little crock.''
--Tatler.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 
Crock \Crock\, v. t.
To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) 
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.
Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms 
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.
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 
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
|
|
|