crock

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Soot.
• intransitive verb To soil with or as if with crock.
• intransitive verb To give off soot or color.
• noun An earthenware vessel.
• noun A broken piece of earthenware.
• noun Slang Foolish talk; nonsense.
• noun One that is worn-out, decrepit, or impaired; a wreck.
• intransitive verb To become weak or disabled. Often used with up.
• intransitive verb To disable; wreck. Often used with up.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An earthen vessel; a pot or jar (properly earthen, but also sometimes of iron, brass, or other metal) used as a receptacle for meal, butter, milk, etc., or in cooking.
• noun A fragment of earthenware; a potsherd, such as is used to cover the hole in the bottom of a flower-pot.
• To lay up in a crock: as, to crock butter.
• noun Soot, or the black matter collected from combustion on pots and kettles or in a chimney; smut in general, as from coloring matter in cloth.
• noun A low seat; a stool.
• noun A little curl of hair; in the plural, the under hair on the neck.
• noun Same as crook, 7.
• To black with soot or other matter collected from combustion; by extension, to soil in any similar way, particularly by contact with imperfectly dyed cloth: as, to crock one's hands.
• To give off crock, smut, or color: as, stockings warranted not to crock.
• To decrease; decay.
• noun An old ewe.
• noun In cricket, a worthless player.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun slang nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock.
• transitive verb To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
• intransitive verb To give off crock or smut.
• transitive verb To lay up in a crock.
• noun a person who is worn out with age or illness.
• noun an old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.
• noun A low stool.
• noun Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
• noun A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
• noun UK A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
• noun UK An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse).
• noun slang, countable and uncountable Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
• verb To break something or injure someone.
• verb textiles, leatherworking To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
• verb horticulture To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
• verb transitive To store (butter, etc.) in a crock.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
• noun a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• noun nonsense; foolish talk
• verb release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
• verb soil with or as with crock