(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).
Planter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
(n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
(n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his father was a rubber planter.
(2) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(3) Use bigger planters combining many plants together in a large volume of compost.
(4) Planters Peanuts Planters introduced the Mr Peanut trademark figure after it was submitted by a schoolboy in a company-sponsored contest in 1916.
(5) In the middle of one gallery is a giant garden planter, fashioned from a truck tire and cast in glowing orange resin.
(6) She revealed that she was descended from a prominent 17th-century Barbadian planter, though she knew very little of him beyond his name and the parish in which he had owned hundreds of acres and enslaved peoples.
(7) But there’s a lot you can do with paint, and planters and stones from old bridge projects.
(8) Women are in a difficult position as both planters and weeders of maize and as caretakers of the ill AIDS patients.
(9) WINNING TIP: Lela's Taverna, Kardamyli, Peloponnese Overlooking the old port in this pretty village, Lela's has a terraced dining area shaded by a vine-covered pergola, with planters tumbling bright red geraniums.
(10) During her time in South America, she travelled around the Dutch colony, sketching local animals and plants but also criticising the treatment of indigenous people and black slaves by Dutch planters.
(11) Margaret Beckett, former foreign secretary What we already knew: Tried to claim £600 for "the supply of plants for hanging baskets, tubs, pots, planters, pouches and garden", and another £711 for "labour and materials for painting of summer house, shed and pergola" on her Derbyshire constituency home while also living in a grace an favour home in London.
(12) Dear Planters Peanuts, At a time when the government has been rightly condemned for the number of millionaires and public schoolboys in the cabinet, I was frankly appalled to see the elitist way in which you market your product.
(13) In Study 2, first- through fifth-grade children were given the task of estimating the likelihood that a bug would fall on a pot containing a flower when presented displays of planters containing either 2, 3, 4, or 5 pots with flowers, and 6, 8, or 10 pots total.
(14) On neurological examination, Parkinsonism, bucco-lingo-masticatory dyskinesia and bilateral extensor planter reflex were present, but tetany was not observed anywhere.
(15) It has been a curse of coffee planters ever since it appeared in east Africa 150 years ago.
(16) "We want to change the community mindset so that mining isn't the only focus of income – there's agriculture, plantations, other jobs to do here," says Untung, 54, from an office so huge it encompasses four sofas, various planters and orchids, and a flatscreen TV.
(17) If you want something more unusual, try a specialist website such as Waterbuttsdirect.co.uk , Simplywaterbutts.co.uk or Greenfingers.com where you can choose from standalone and wall-mounted decorative butts that look like (or are) wooden barrels, terracotta pots, stone walls, metal planters – even Roman columns – in a wide variety of sizes, materials and prices.
(18) The food court looks attractive, fringed by herb-filled planters made from more reclaimed rollercoaster.
(19) Tour guides will wax lyrical about the gracious lifestyles led by the planter families who lived in them.
(20) In 6 patients reporting contact with primrose positive tests were obtained with flowers and leaves of this plant, four of five tobacco planters tested who had eczematous lesions of the hands, aave also positive results of the test with tobacco leaves, and in three children reporting contact with butter-cup changes were observed resembling dermatitis pratensis bullosa.