Crock

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A low stool.

II. Crock ·vi To give off crock or smut.

III. Crock ·vt To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.

IV. Crock ·noun Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.

V. Crock ·vt To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.

VI. Crock ·noun 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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