crock

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Too large crocks are not desirable, since they increase the liability of breaking some of the eggs, and spoiling the entire batch It must be remembered that the eggs on the bottom crack first and that those in the bottom of the crock are the last to be removed for use.

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  1. noun An earthenware vessel.
  2. noun A broken piece of earthenware.
  3. noun Slang Foolish talk; nonsense: That story is just a crock.
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  • A pudding sat cooling in a crock, and a number of pies with golden and sugary crusts met her delighted gaze. —  Anthology - My Scandalous Bride
  • I've bought a Spurling—looks like a crock, but she goes. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • They put the stuff in the jug in a crock and put the other stuff in it, then they ran out and shut the door The old man shuddered I could look at Doc Savage's face and I could see the stuff in the crock was going to kill him," he said What did you do?" —  145 - The Ten Ton Snakes
  • His first was an old crock, and the only shelter he bothered to give it was that wooden shed which has a padlock on the door and opens on to the road. —  Maigret at the Crossroads - Georges Simenon - 07
  • But if you try to go public with this crock, my editors will sue you into the poorhouse Don't worry, Sara, I can't talk without throwing Emily to the sharks and she's suffered enough already. —  EQMM,March-April2008
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ewer ·  jug ·  platter ·  tankard ·  keg ·  urn ·  saucer ·  beaker ·  pail ·  tins ·  teapot ·  saucepan

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  1. Middle English crokke, from Old English crocc. Sense 2, short for crock of shit.
  2. Origin unknown.
  3. Earlier, old ewe that has ceased bearing; probably akin to Norwegian krake, sickly animal, and Middle Dutch kraecke, broken-down horse.

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  1. (1) from Middle English crocke, crokke, crokk, from Anglo-Saxon crocca, also crohha, rarely crocc, a crock, = OFries. krocha = Low German kruke = Icelandic krukka = Swedish kruka = Danish krukke, a crock. There are two other related words, applied to earthen vessels of various shapes; (2) Anglo-Saxon crōh, crōg, early Middle English croh, a pot, pitcher, etc., = Old High German kruag, chruag, crōg, Middle High German kruoc, German krug; (3) Anglo-Saxon crūce (plural crūcan), Middle English crouke = Dutch kruik = Middle High German krūche, German dial. krauche, a pot, etc. These groups stand in an undetermined relation with (are perhaps ult. derived from) the Celtic forms: Gaelic crog, a pitcher, jar, crogan = Irish crogan, a pitcher, = Welsh crochan, a pot; cf. crwe, a bucket, pail. The Celtic forms are prob. related to Cornish crogen, a shell, skull, = W. and Breton cragen, a shell. The Romance forms, French cruche, an earthen pot, a pitcher (later ult. crucible, q. v.), Gascon cruga, Provencal crugo, Old French cruye (later prob. English diminutive cruet), are of Teutonic or perhaps of direct Celtic origin. Cf. cruse.
  2. from crock, n.
  3. Origin uncertain; perhaps the same as English dial. croke, refuse, Middle English croke, crok, a husk, hull, fig. refuse; cf. Low German krak, krāk, a thing of no value: see crock.
  4. Origin obscure. Cf. cricket, of same sense.
  5. A variant of crook, q. v. Cf. crocket.
  6. English dial., perhaps a variant of crack. Cf. crock and crock.
  7. Scots and English dial.; prob. = Low German krakke, an old horse, an old decayed house, = Old Dutch kraecke, an old decayed house; perhaps ult. a variant of crack.
 

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