Crocks - English meaning

noun

An object for holding or transporting something.

Usage examples:

The cakes will keep for up to two weeks if kept in an airtight container

noun

A cream or milk substitute for adding to coffee or tea.

Usage examples:

Alex prayed that dan hadn't used the milk for creamer in his coffee.

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A small pitcher for serving cream

noun

A powder that is added to hot drinks instead of milk or cream

Usage examples:

We don't have any more milk - would you like some creamer instead?

noun

A large jug with a wide mouth, formerly used for carrying water.

Usage examples:

Various black-clad servants bustled about the room and began carrying in trays of food and ewers of…

noun

A large jug with a wide spout, especially from ancient times

noun

A wide-mouthed cylindrical container made of glass or pottery and typically having a lid, used especially for storing food.

Usage examples:

A large storage jar

verb

Send a painful or damaging shock through (something, especially a part of the body).

Usage examples:

He jarred the knee in training

noun

A physical shock or jolt.

Usage examples:

The train stopped without the slightest jar

noun

A large bowl or jug used for serving drinks such as tea or punch.

Usage examples:

Most of these already hefty meals were ‘washed down’ with jorums of ultra-sweet beverages, notably …

noun

A cylindrical container with a handle and a lip, used for holding and pouring liquids.

Usage examples:

Place the lavender flowers in a wide jug and pour the cream over them.

verb

Stew or boil (a hare or rabbit) in a covered container.

Usage examples:

I remember still the rich, dense jugged hare i ate then, served from its own shining copper pot; 25…

noun

A large bottle with a narrow mouth

noun

A large jug.

Usage examples:

Carrying a glass pitcher full of dark-brown liquid, with a healthy head of foam on it, he places it…

noun

The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

Usage examples:

The catcher has to stay within the box until the pitcher delivers the ball.

noun

A container for liquids with a handle on one side and a shaped opening at the top of the other side for pouring

noun

A rounded or cylindrical container, typically of metal, used for cooking.

Usage examples:

Pots and pans hung from a rack

verb

Plant in a flowerpot.

Usage examples:

Pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves

noun

Cannabis.

Usage examples:

We smoked pot at football games

noun

A hollow object used to contain something.

Usage examples:

Fast-food receptacles

noun

A container for holding things or that you can put things in

Usage examples:

A trash receptacle

noun

A place where or receptacle in which things are or may be stored.

Usage examples:

A deep repository for nuclear waste

noun

A place where things are stored

Usage examples:

A nuclear waste repository, fig. the proverbs amounted to a repository of wisdom.

noun

A place in which water is collected; a reservoir; a cistern, a tank. also (occasionally): a receptacle for any liquid.

adjective

Having the effect of reserving something.

noun

A tall, rounded vase with a stem and base, especially one used for storing the ashes of a cremated person.

Usage examples:

Richly glazed and often spectacularly potted, the sources for these works include anglo-saxon crema…

verb

Place in an urn.

noun

A large, round container from which coffee or tea is served, or a decorative container, esp. one that holds the ashes of the body of a dead person after it has been cremated (= burned)

noun

A ship or large boat.

Usage examples:

The bridge only opens with two keys, at the moment it is high and open, which would allow ships and…

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A large boat or ship

Usage examples:

A scattering of vessels anchored in the harbor., we used bowls, pots, bottles, pitchers – any vesse…

noun

A large boat or a ship

Usage examples:

Two tugboats guided the 70,000 ton vessel into port., a cargo/container/freight vessel, a commercia…