CROCK - 13 definitions found
crock n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock] 2: nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" 3: an earthen jar (made of baked clay) [syn: crock, earthenware jar] v 1: release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric 2: soil with or as with crock Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary crock (crocks) 1. A crock is a clay pot or jar. (OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT 2. If you describe someone as an old crock, you mean that they are old and weak. (BRIT INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT 3. If you describe what someone has said as a crock, you mean that you think it is foolish, wrong, or untrue. (mainly AM INFORMAL) N-COUNT: usu sing [disapproval] 4. a crock of gold: see gold Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crock \Crock\ (kr[o^]k), n. [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered.] 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. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crock \Crock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crocked (kr[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crocking.] To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crock \Crock\, v. i. To give off crock or smut. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crock \Crock\, n. A low stool. ``I . . . seated her upon a little crock.'' --Tatler. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crock \Crock\ (kr?k), n. [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.] Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. --Spenser. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crock \Crock\, v. t. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell. Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix `make(1)', which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to segfault). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see The Story of Mel in Appendix A.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See kluge, brittle. The adjectives `crockish' and `crocky', and the nouns `crockishness' and `crockitude', are also used. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms crock I. n. 1. Earthen jar, pot, piece of crockery. 2. Low seat, stool. 3. Soot, smut. II. v. a. Blacken (with soot), soil, smut. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "crock": adobe, balker, balky horse, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, crockery, crowbait, dog, enamelware, firebrick, garron, glass, goat, hack, jade, jug, jughead, nag, plug, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, roarer, rogue, rosinante, scalawag, stiff, tile, tiling, urn, vase, whistler |
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