Definitions for crocks

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crocks crock

Spelling: [krok]

IPA: /krɒk/

Crocks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in crocks (cckors).

Definitions for crocks

noun

1. an earthenware pot, jar, or other container.
2. a fragment of earthenware; potsherd.
3. a person or thing that is old, decrepit, or broken-down.
4. Slang. a person who complains about or insists on being treated for an imagined illness.
5. an old ewe.
6. an old worn-out horse.
7. British Dialect. soot; smut.
8. excess surface dye from imperfectly dyed cloth.
9. a lie; exaggeration; nonsense:

verb (used with object)

1. British Slang. to disable or injure.
2. British Dialect. to soil with soot.

verb (used without object)

1. (of cloth) to give off excess surface dye when rubbed.

Origin of crocks

before 1000; Middle English crokke, Old English croc(c), crocca pot; cognate with Old Norse krukka jug

Examples for crocks

Strain the cream from the crock into the churn, and put on the lid.

Note: The breakfast rice may also be made in a crock pot overnight.

She put the crock down and came close to him and took hold of his arm.

They were a crock of salt, a tin of soda and a porcelain pitcher of water.

What did you call that mess in the crock with the handle, Longy?

All of us on your hands, and no money, and me such a crock, and presently a new baby.

The quartet that empties its crock first wins the game, and then the sets of players change.

George W. Bush did it, with compassionate conservatism, crock though it was.

JASON ( swatting an imaginary gnat): Hope over fear... What a crock.

Should he blab it out, and so be poor again, and lose the crock?