[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\, n.
   1. a person who is worn out with age or illness.
      pjc

   2. an old person who complains frequently about illness,
      especially imaginary ailments.
      pjc

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\, n.
   nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a
   crock. slang
   pjc

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\, v. t. imp.  p. p. crocked kro^kt; p. pr.
    vb. n. crocking.
   to soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter
   of badly dyed cloth.
   1913 webster
see also:
crocked crocking 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\, v. i.
   to give off crock or smut.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\, v. t.
   to lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --halliwell.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\ kro^k, n. cf. w. croeg cover, scot. crochit
   covered.
   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.
   1913 webster

[7] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\, n.
   a low stool. "i . . . seated her upon a little crock."
   --tatler.
   1913 webster

[8] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crock \crock\ kro^k, n. as. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin
   to d. kruik, g. krug, icel. krukka, dan. krukke, sw. kruka;
   but cf. w. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen
   vessel, jar. cf. cruet.
   any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an
   earthen pot or pitcher.
   1913 webster

         like foolish flies about an honey crock. --spenser.
   1913 webster
see also:
cruet 

[9] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crock
     n 1: nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock"
     2: an earthen jar made of baked clay syn: earthenware jar
     v 1: release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
     2: soil with or as with crock
see also:
earthenware jar 

[10] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

39 moby thesaurus words for "crock":
   adobe, balker, balky horse, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement,
   ceramic ware, ceramics, china, crockery, crowbait, dog, enamelware,
   firebrick, garron, glass, goat, hack, jade, jug, jughead, nag,
   plug, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, roarer, rogue,
   rosinante, scalawag, stiff, tile, tiling, urn, vase, whistler

[11] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

crock n. from the american scatologism `crock of shit' 1. an awkward
   feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. for
   example, using small integers to represent error codes without the
   program interpreting them to the user as in, for example, unix
   `make1', which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to
   segfault. 2. a technique that works acceptably, but which is quite
   prone to failure if disturbed in the least. for example, a too-clever
   programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics
   to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too
   intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. for another
   example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see
   the story of mel in appendix a. many crocks have a tightly woven,
   almost completely unmodifiable structure. see kluge, brittle. the
   adjectives `crockish' and `crocky', and the nouns `crockishness' and
   `crockitude', are also used.


see also:
segfault the story of mel kluge brittle 

[12] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

crock
     
        american scatologism "crock of shit" 1. an awkward feature
        or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner.  for
        example, using small integers to represent error codes without
        the program interpreting them to the user as in, for example,
        unix "make1", which returns code 139 for a process that dies
        due to segfault.
     
        2. a technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone
        to failure if disturbed in the least.  for example, a
        too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped
        instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes
        algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on
        the particular bit patterns of the opcodes.  for another
        example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode
        values, see the story of mel.  many crocks have a tightly
        woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure.  see kluge,
        brittle.  the adjectives "crockish" and "crocky", and the
        nouns "crockishness" and "crockitude", are also used.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
segfault instruction mnemonics opcode algorithm the story of mel kluge 
brittle jargon file 

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