(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).
Earthenware
Definition:
(n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In earthenware vessels from the Moche period (200-700 A.D.) pathological findings of nasal deformities have been depicted in a realistic manner.
(2) As she fills the earthenware pot, she counts herself lucky not to be in a refugee camp in neighbouring Niger Republic or among the 234 girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from a physics exam in GGSS Chibok and taken to the Sambisa Forest reserve , leaving their parents and an entire country distraught .
(3) In a very large soup pot (I typically use a 11.5 litre stainless-steel stock pot or a medium-large Mexican earthenware cazuela), heat the lard or oil over medium.
(4) The 19th century saw the introduction of the first coloured earthenware and the manufacture of bone china.
(5) The results of the analysis seem to suggest differences in blood levels by sex, zone of residence, hours of transportation and eating habits, such as the consumption of canned meals and the use of "earthenware dishes" in the preparation of meals.
(6) aegypti breeding habitats were ant traps, earthenware jars, bowls, tanks, tin cans, and drums, ant traps being the most common indoors and earthenware jars the most common out doors.
(7) Deposit plates, anodized aluminium, glazed earthenware plates, and polystyren, glass, "Tergal" cloth plates were used in 8 urban sites and 1 extra-urban site during 1 to 3 months.
(8) The craft production of earthenware recipients that have been inadequately glazed and their improper use as containers of drings of foods could be commoner than might be thought on the basis of the sporadic reporting of such cases of lead poisoning.
(9) The proportion of positive stored water samples was also lower with the use of different vessels for collection and storage, with storage inside the house, and with use of a storage container other than an earthenware pot.
(10) Storage using earthenware pots for six weeks resulted in significant losses of vitamin C. In general, traditional methods for processing, preservation and storage of vegetables cause significant losses of nutrients, an effect that could account for poor, nutritional status in Morogoro region (Tanzania).
(11) It bought the pottery manufacturer Denby for £30m in 2009 and continues to run it, adding earthenware firm Burleigh in 2010 and Somerset-based Poole Pottery in 2011.
(12) In the production of earthenware relatively high concentrations of dust occur only temporarily, but in very few cases they may cause silicosis.
(13) Caravaggio leapt up, hit him with an earthenware dish and drew his ever-ready sword, but one of his friends restrained him from killing the waiter.
(14) The most famous artist of the moment, Ai Weiwei, imprisoned and then released by the Chinese authorities, is another YBA-influenced figure with his huge studios in China, where a team of assistants follow his instructions delivered in mobile phone calls and occasional visits, and where scores of old Chinese earthenware vases half-dipped in random primary colours are arranged in large grids as installations.
(15) It was found that the decoction made by means of glassware, enamel and earthenware pots had the best effect of inhibiting the colony formation of human gastric carcinoma cells, the next were the decoctions made by means of unrefined iron pots, stainless steel pots and copper pots, and the worst was that made with aluminium pots.
(16) Two methods-chlorination of stored water and the use of a narrow-necked earthenware vessel (called a 'sorai') for storing the water-were found to be effective in reducing the transmission of infection among the family contacts of cholera patients.
(17) There are tombs and cloisters and bits of earthenware crockery which might have come from the kitchen of the Casa de Mar, rather than being dropped by a butter-fingered monk 700 years ago.
(18) He recalls dining in the south of France with his friend and mentor, the cookery writer Richard Olney, who served tripe that had been gently cooked for a day in an earthenware container.
(19) aegypti and Mesocyclops, both copepod species eliminated all immatures in earthenware pots by week 3.