Crock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

   “1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181, Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.”

2. isim A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. isim A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

   “old crocks’ home”

4. isim An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).

   “old crocks race”

5. isim Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

   “That's a bunch of crock.”

6. isim A low stool.
7. isim A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

   “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.”

8. fiil To break something or injure someone.

   “"That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."”

9. fiil To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.

   “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.”

10. fiil To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.

    “The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...”

11. fiil To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

    “She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.”

12. isim The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

    “[…] “here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!””

13. isim Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
14. fiil To give off crock or smut.
15. özel isim A surname.