Crock vs Croci - What's the difference?
crock | croci |
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
* 1590-96 , '', 1750, ''The Works of Spenser , Volume 3,
A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
(UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
* 1925 , ,
* 1932 , Helen Simpson, Boomerang ,
(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
(slang, countable, and, uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
:That is a bunch of crock .
A low stool.
* 1709 , '', 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), ''The Tatler , 2007 Facsimile Edition,
To break something or injure someone.
* 1904 , P.G. Wodehouse, [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/gldbt10.txt]:
* 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror :
* 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times :
(textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
* 1917 , John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=G3xVAAAAEBAJ], US Patent 1371572, page 1:
* 1964 , Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJGAAAAMAAJ], page 109:
* 2002 , Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [http://books.google.com/books?id=3ZXZ6f2KNLwC], ISBN 1579902731, page 95:
(horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
* 1900 , H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book [http://books.google.com/books?id=PeECAAAAYAAJ], page 21:
To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.
The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
As nouns the difference between crock and croci
is that crock is a stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container or crock can be the loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut while croci is .As a verb crock
is to break something or injure someone or crock can be to give off crock or smut.crock
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crokke, from (etyl) crocc, . See also (l).Noun
(en noun)page 181,
- Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his lea?ings vain; / Like fooli?h Flies about an Honey-Crock ; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
- Old crocks ’ home = home for the aged
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621,
- 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.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611,
- 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 .”
- Old crocks race = veteran car rally
- The story is a crock .
page 12,
- I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.
Verb
(en verb)- "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
- Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
- Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
- 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.
- The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
- (Halliwell)
