Word Direct Answers

What does "crock" mean?

Crock: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
  2. 3.To give off crock or smut.
  3. 4.A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.
  4. 5.Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.
  5. 6.To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.

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