(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
(v. i.) To give off crock or smut.
(n.) A low stool.
(n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
(v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
Example Sentences:
(1) He frequently skips lunch, such as today’s offering of meat salad, and preferred to make his own meals before the prison staff revoked his Crock-Pot.
(2) A total of 22 patients operated according to Henry Crock's indications and followed-up after 2 years were reviewed.
(3) I prefer a crocked Messi to anyone else fully fit."
(4) Denilson, and not Campbell, is on for the crocked Gallas.
(5) Ethical consumerism, once again, has turned out to be a crock.
(6) How much real world evidence needs to accumulate before politicians in the UK will stop stoking the politics of envy, as though there really was a hidden crock of gold at the end of the rainbow?
(7) Trephination with the modified Crock trephine yielded disks with diameters close to 7.3 mm in all meridians.
(8) A professor of public law at the University of Sydney, Mary Crock, said immigration officers had asked the asylum seekers just four questions before determining they should be handed back: their name, age, where they came from and why they didn’t want to go back.
(9) If Bucholtz is crocked, lets hope Nieves had been showing Doubront videos of Mike Marshall from '74 with the Dodgers and '79 with the Twins.
(10) The third was a squamous cell carcinoma of the limbus treated by lamellar excision with the Crock Contact-lens Corneal Cutter; the wound was allowed to granulate, and in so doing, caused negligible astigmatism.
(11) Gino Pozzo, son of the family business's founder, Giampaolo, stated on taking over that they are interested in investing in their English club for similar measured progress, not a rapid sprint to the Premier League's crock of gold, fortified by loan deals.
(12) Many of the patients termed crocks have symptoms referable to the gastrointestinal system, and they are at considerable health risk, since they usually alienate health care personnel.
(13) Look after the wealthy and clever and they will look after everyone else – that’s the moral basis of capitalism, and it’s a crock.
(14) "Anybody can tell you that asking someone in the middle of the high seas simple questions like that is not going to deliver anything near the information you need to work out if they are refugees or not," said Crock, a migration and refugee law expert.
(15) "So much has been made of Factory apparently turning The Smiths down, but that's a crock of shit.
(16) Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope.
(17) Even Chiles was moved to described it as a "crock of shit" , but any decision to axe it would be a blow for ITV director of television Peter Fincham, who was responsible for ditching GMTV.
(18) Henry Crock was the first to reveal its principal pathogenetic factor, disc resorption, and to accurately describe the syndrome and its surgical treatment.
(19) Michael Heseltine had already been anointed as the new minister for Merseyside to stabilise Liverpool but without any crock of gold and, as the cabinet papers reveal, on what Thatcher's closest advisers considered to be a "doomed mission".
(20) Meanwhile, unemployment in Greece is around 27%; the public debt now is higher than it was when Athens collapsed, and the banking system is so crocked that small and mid-sized businesses in Greece are starved of credit (compare that with the generous terms and conditions a tech start-up in Berlin can now get).