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Definition of Crocks
1. crock [v] - See also: crock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocks
Literary usage of Crocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... ta general of the crocks with twenty ships from the Péloponnèse ; there sailed
with him also the Athenians Avith thirty ship», and n large number of the ..."
2. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1902)
"Into this chilling trough place four stone crocks, a few inches apart, ...
The trough should now be half filled with water in which the crocks ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1881)
"(2) A small Scotch cow. North. С ROD ART. A coward. North. CRODDY. To contest ;
to strive ; to play very in Gothic architecture. crocks. ..."
4. In Search of a Polar Continent, 1905-1907 by Alfred H. Harrison (1908)
"... passages—Fish-skin windows—Whale-oil lamps— The iglo and the snow-house—Tools
and household crocks —A universal implement—Grease-boxes—Bows and arrows ..."
5. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1878)
"They seem to like, as a soil, turfy loam and sand well mixed, and the pots should
be well drained by a liberal supply of crocks. They are increased in the ..."
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