Definition of crock

• n. - 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.
• v. t. - To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
• v. i. - To give off crock or smut.
• n. - A low stool.
• n. - Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
• v. t. - To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.