This old English word is still used in some parts of New England.
Therefore the vulgar did about him flocke,
Like foolish flies into an honey crocke.--Spenser, F. Queen, V. 2. 33.
This word is provincial in various parts of England, and is there used precisely as in the United States.
At one of our frolics, there was one long-haired fellow, looked as though he'd been among the pets and kettles, and got a great gob of crock on his upper lip.--Lafayette Chron.
1) soot from the chimney, a pot or kettle. Essex. To crock, to black any one with soot. 2) an earth...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
To black with soot or other matter collected from combustion, or to black with the coloring matter o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.