Thesaurus: crock

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1. 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.
2. v. t. To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
3. v. i. To give off crock or smut.
4. n. A low stool.
5. n. Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
6. v. t. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
7. n. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
8. n. nonsense; foolish talk
9. n. an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
10. v. release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
11. v. soil with or as with crock
12. 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. To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. To give off crock or smut. A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler. Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.