Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To break something or injure someone. · To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. · To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. · To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. · A piece of broken pottery, a shard. · A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. · An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *krokku, *krokkō, from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”). The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English crōg, crōh (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.
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