crock
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Is crock a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.Examples: "old crocks’ home"; "He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask."; "He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can′t ask a girl to marry a crock.”"UK
2. (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).Examples: "old crocks race"Synonyms: banger, banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crockUK
3. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.Examples: "That's a bunch of crock."; "The story is a crock."CanadaUScountableslanguncountable
4. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.Examples: "Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously."derogatory
verb (English)
1. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.Examples: "thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter."; "Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye)."; "In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath."
2. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.Examples: "The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated..."
3. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.Examples: "She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool."dialectaltransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary