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.
To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
To give off crock or smut.
A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.
Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.
To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.
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