In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CROCK
crock, earthenware jar
(noun) an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
crock
(noun) nonsense; foolish talk; “that’s a crock”
crock
(verb) soil with or as with crock
crock
(verb) release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Crock (plural Crocks)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Crock is the 30570th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 763 individuals. Crock is most common among White (96.59%) individuals.
Etymology 1
Noun
crock (plural crocks)
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
(UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
(slang, North America, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
A low stool.
(medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
Synonyms
• (vehicle): banger
Verb
crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)
To break something or injure someone.
(textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
(horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
(transitive, now, dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
Etymology 2
Noun
crock (uncountable)
The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
Verb
crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)
(intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
Source: Wiktionary
Crock (krk), n. Etym: [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered.]
Definition: 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.
Crock, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Crocked (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crocking.]
Definition: To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
Crock, v. i.
Definition: To give off crock or smut.
Crock, n.
Definition: A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.
Crock (krk), n. Etym: [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. Cruet.]
Definition: Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.
Crock, v. t.
Definition: To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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