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▪ I. † crocker1 Obs.
Also 6 croker.
[f. crock n.1 + -er1.]
A potter.
c1315Shoreham 106 Wat helpth hyt the crokke..Aye the crokkere to brokke, Wy madest thou me so? 1382Wyclif Jer. xviii. 3 Y cam doun to the hous of the crockere [1388 pottere]. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 43 As koy as a crokers mare. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 46 Something like to common Crockers Earth.
▪ II. crocker2
A local name of the Black-headed Gull.
(The 16th c. crocard may be the same word.)
a1547in Househ. Ord. (1790) 223 Crocards and Oliffs, 3s. 4d. [See Archæol. III. 157.] 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 209 Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)—Crocker. |