Middle English Dictionary Entry
crokker(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crokker(e n. Also croker. |
| Etymology | OE *croccere |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A potter; (b) as surname; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.112].
Associated quotations
a
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)103/133 : Þe crokkere myȝte segge: 'Þou proud erþe of lompet [etc.].'
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.2.9 : Thou shalt gouerne them in an irene ȝerde; and as a vessel of a crockere [L vas figuli] breke them togidere.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Wisd.15.7 : The crockere [WB(2): pottere], the nesshe erthe threstende, trauailously maketh to oure vses eche vessel..domesman is the crockere.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ecclus.27.6 : The vesselis of the krockere preueth the furneis; and riȝtwis men temptacioun of tribulacioun.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)195a/b : Cley..disposeþ and ableþ to dyuers workes of crokkers.
- (?1463) Stonor1.65 : Thomas Parker de Dodbroke, crokker.
b
- (1275) in Fransson Surn.185 : Joh. le Crockare.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1035 : Ricardus Crockere.
- (1313) Sub.R.Bristol(1) in BGAS 19251 : Juliana le Crokkere.
- (1313) Sub.R.Bristol(1) in BGAS 19269 : Robertus le Crokere.
- (1392) Court R.Hastings in Sus.RS 37119 : John Crokker.
c
- (1222) Domesday Bk.St.Paul in Camd.6979 : Dimidiam acram terre..in crokkerelond.