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The Meaning of crock

  • (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.

Synonyms

carbon black , lampblack , soot , smut , earthenware jar

Homophones

croc , kroc , krock , krok

Rhymes

ad-hoc , adcock , aftershock , airlock , alcock , antiknock , antilock , antioch , baack , bach , balk , ballcock , bangkok , barach , baulk , bedrock , bloc , bloch , block , blok , boardwalk , boch , bock , bohlke , bok , broc , brock , calk , catwalk , caulk , chalk , chock , chok , clock , cloque , cock , comstock , cornstalk , croc , crosstalk , crosswalk , deadlock , doc , dock , eisenach , elcock , electroshock , erlach , estok , falk , falke , faulk , feedstock , flintlock , floc , flock , frock , fyock , gamecock , gawk , glock , gocke , gohlke , goshawk , gridlock , groch , haack , haacke , haak , hammerlock , hamrock , hancock , hassebrock , hauck , hauk , hauke , havelock , hawk , hawke , haycock , hemlock , hitchcock , hoc , hoch , hock , hollyhock , interlock , iraq , jacques , jaywalk , jock , kilmarnock , kloc , klock , klocke , knaack , knaak , knock , kock , kok , kroc , krock , krok , kwok , laack , laake , landlock , lauck , laughingstock , laycock , leacock , livestock , loch , lock , locke , maack , mach , madlock , manioc , maroc , matchlock , mauck , mauk , maycock , moch , mock , mohawk , mok , nighthawk , nock , norwalk , oarlock , och , overstock , padlock , pathak , peacock , ploch , plock , poch , pock , poppycock , reichenbach , restock , roadblock , roc , roch , rock , rocke , rocque , salk , sauk , schaack , schalk , schlock , schoch , shaak , shamrock , shedlock , sherlock , shock , shrock , shylock , sidewalk , skok , skroch , sleepwalk , smock , sock , sok , spock , spurlock , squawk , staack , stalk , stock , stocke , stokke , strock , talk , tock , tomahawk , toque , undock , unlock , vlok , vocke , waack , walk , walke , warloeck , wedlock , woodcock , woodstock , yeosock , zoch , zwack