Middle English Dictionary Entry
crokke n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crokke n. Also crok. |
| Etymology | OE crocca, croc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. crouke.
1.
(a) An earthen pot, jar, pitcher, or crock; used fig. in quot. Ancr.; (b) (Vulcan's) cauldron [see quot.]; (c) stomach, belly; (d) crok-stikke, a stick or ladle for stirring a pot.
Associated quotations
a
- c1120(OE) Leges Hen.I in Liebermann Gesetze 1611 : Ði eorum crocca towallet, id est si eorum olla non simul bulliat.
- a1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)156/21 : Auh to hire owune schrift feder..[she] kulle al ut þet is iðe krocke [Corp-C: pot].
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)103/129 : Þat [read: Wat] helpþ hyt þe crokke Þat hys to felþe ydo, Aȝe þe crokkere to brokke: 'Wy madest þou me so?'
- c1350 Of alle þe witti (Add 45896)61 : I mot care for cartus, for cloutes and crokkes.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.17 : Þere is also white cley and reed forto make of crokkes [Higd.(2): pottes] and stenes and oþer vessel.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.169 : He..dede meny myracles..he..closede suche a spirit in a seþinge crokke [Higd.(2): in a potte boylynge].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)310b/b : Ocra brend rede in newe crokkes wel y stopped.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)331b/a : A crokke hatte olla for water boyleþ þer Inne..a panne haþ an openere mouþ þan a crokke.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)19.275 : And lerned men a ladel bugge with a longe stele, Þat cast for to kepe a crokke to saue þe fatte abouen.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)45b/b : Olla: a crocke.
- ?a1425(c1390) Chaucer Truth (Benson-Robinson)12 : Be war also to sporne ayeyns an al; Stryve not, as doth the crokke with the wal.
- (1446) Invent.Lytham in Chet.n.s.6080 : j crok of salt.
- (1450) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 491 : For costage yn sekyng of a potte or a crokke iiij d.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)99/13 : Sethe hem in a crocke with watir.
- (a1472) Acc.Bodmin in Camd.n.s.149 : For a crokke sold, xx d.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)2.52 : And cast adoun þe crokk þe colys amyd.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.323 : Theodoricus þe tyraunt scapede nouȝt þe peyne..Solutarius sigh hym boyle and seþe in Ulkanus his crokke [Higd.(2): in the see nye to Sicille, callede Olla Vulcani].
c
- c1450 Dice(1) (Frf 16)62 : When that youre wombe doth fille..so merely crowdeth than youre crokke, That al the strete may here youre body clokke.
d
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)p.626 : Contus: crokstyke.