crock : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crock	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for crock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crock n a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink Synonym(s): carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" an earthen jar (made of baked clay) Synonym(s): crock, earthenware jar v release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric soil with or as with crock
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crock \Crock\ (kr[ocr]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crock \Crock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crocked} (kr[ocr]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crocking}.] To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crock \Crock\, v. i. To give off crock or smut.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crock \Crock\, n. A low stool. [bd]I . . . seated her upon a little crock.[b8] --Tatler.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crock \Crock\ (kr?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. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crock \Crock\, v. t. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. --Halliwell.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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 `make(1)', 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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 "make(1)", 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 {opcode}s {algorithm}ically, 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}]