Crock

Part of speech: noun (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.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To give off crock or smut.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.