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Crocked

adjective



Crock

verb
(past & past part. crocked; pres. part. crocking)
1.
Release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric.
2.
Soil with or as with crock.



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"Crocked" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the scrum-half who will be unable to assist his team this month on account of being severely crocked whilst helping his wife ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various

... flattered Jenny worked away, assisting in scouring knives and washing spiders, until her dress was splashed with dishwater, and her white apron crocked by ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes

... rickshaws nor carriages for hire in Samarinda, I was compelled to walk. It was really too hot to move. In five minutes my clothes were as wet as though I had fallen in the river. The green silk lining of my sun-hat crocked and ran down my face in emerald rivulets. When I had covered half the distance I paused beneath a waringin tree to rest. A breath of breeze from the river, sighing through the palms, brought to my streaming cheeks a hint of coolness and to my nostrils more ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... her. "Queen's Gate, and Sundays at the Metropole. They're shipping people, which is where the diamond ta-ra-ras come from. Oh yes, there's a husband, quite a nice fellow, crocked in the Flying Corps. No, I don't know who the chap is she's got with her. Some dusky brother. Not Cleve." He fell silent as Lawrence ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... worked away, assisting in scouring knives and washing spiders, until her dress was splashed with dishwater, and her white apron crocked by ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes



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