Obs. exc. dial. [f. CROCK sb.2] trans. To smut with soot or grime; to soil, defile. Hence Crocked ppl. a.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 355. He shall take thee from among the crokt pots. Ibid., 860. Suffers them to be crockt among the pots.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm. (1669), 100/2. The Collier and Fuller … what one cleanseth, the other will crock and smutch.
1674. in Ray, S. & E. C. Words, 63 [see CROCK sb.2].
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick. (1839), 413. Without blacking and crocking myself.
1860. O. W. Holmes, E. Venner, xxii. They’ll ‘crock’ your fingers.
fig. c. 1680. Hickeringill, Hist. Whiggism, Wks. 1716, I. 20. He crocks every Man in the mouth (with his Pen) that stands in the way of Popish Designs.
b. intr. To give off ‘crock’ or smut.
In mod. Dicts.
Crock v.3: see after CROCK sb.4
