Crock vs. Crook — What's the Difference?

An earthenware vessel.

An implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.

A broken piece of earthenware.

A part that is curved or bent like a hook.

(Slang) Foolish talk; nonsense

A curve or bend; a turn

Soot.

(Informal) One who makes a living by dishonest methods.

One that is worn-out, decrepit, or impaired; a wreck.

To make a crook in; bend

To soil with or as if with crock.

To bend or curve.

To give off soot or color.

Out of order; faulty.

To become weak or disabled. Often used with up.

Not well; ill.

To disable; wreck. Often used with up.

Of poor quality; inferior.

A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.

Not honest; crooked.

A piece of broken pottery, a shard.

A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

(UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.

A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

(UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).

A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

(obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.

A low stool.

(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

A bishop's standard staff of office.

Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

To break something or injure someone.

A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.

A pothook.

(horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.

(music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.

(transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.

(intransitive) To give off crock or smut.

(intransitive) To become bent or hooked.

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.

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

A low stool.

Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.

Ill, sick.

A person who is worn out with age or illness.

Annoyed, angry; upset.

An old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

Nonsense; balderdash; humbug; - usually used in the phrase a crock.

Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

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

A pothook.

To give off crock or smut.

An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

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

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

Nonsense; foolish talk;

A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

An earthen jar (made of baked clay)

To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

Release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Soil with or as with crock

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

A circular segment of a curve;

A long staff with one end being hook shaped

Bend or cause to bend;