crocodilen.

Brit.

/ˈkrɒkədʌɪl/, U.S.

/ˈkrɑkəˌdaɪl/

Forms: α. Middle English cokadrille, cokadryll(e, cokedril, cokedrill(e, Middle English–1500s cocodrill(e, cocodryll(e, Middle English cocodrile, coko-, coquodrille, cockadrylle, Middle English–1500s cocadryll(e; β. 1500s– crocodile, (1500s crocodrille, 1500s–1600s crocodil(l, 1600s crockadell, crocadile, crokidile, crokodile, 1700s crocodyle).

Etymology: Middle English cocodrille, cokadrill, etc. < Old French cocodrille (13–17th cent.) = Provençal cocodrilh, Spanish cocodrilo, Italian coccodrillo, medieval Latin cocodrillus, corruption of Latin crocodīlus (also corcodilus), < Greek κροκόδειλος, found from Herodotus downward. The original form after Greek and Latin was restored in most of the modern languages in the 16–17th cent.: French crocodile (in Paré), Italian crocodillo (in Florio), Spanish crocodilo (in Percival).

a. A large amphibious saurian reptile of the genus Crocodilus or other allied genera. The name belongs originally and properly to the crocodile of the Nile ( C. niloticus or vulgaris); but is extended to other species of the same or allied genera, and sometimes to the whole of the Crocodilia, including the Alligators of America and the Gavial or ‘crocodile’ of the Ganges.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > member of

crocodilec1300

cayman1577

crocodilian1836

the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > suborder Eusuchia > family Crocodylidae > member of (crocodile)

crocodilec1300

cockatricec1450

emydosaurian1837

rhombifer1875

croc1884

c1300 K. Alis. 6597 What best is the cokadrille.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 29 A cokedril..that is a beest of foure feete, hauynge the nether cheke lap vnmeuable, and meuynge the ouere.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton E viii b The cockadrylle is so stronge and so grete a serpent.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxvi. 112 The grete multytude of serpentes and cocodrylles.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 184 Crocodrilles which they call Caymanes or Lizards of twenty foote long, with such Scales..as a Dragon hathe.

1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 390 A living Crocodile, brought from some of the W: Indian Ilands, in every respect resembling the Egyptian Crocodile.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 271 As a young Brood of Crocodiles, who swim In Ganges stream.

1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) iii. 63 Some huge salamander or crocodile of the Lias.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §491 This family..is divided into three genera, the Crocodiles, Alligators and Gavials..The true crocodiles are inhabitants of Africa, India, and the hotter parts of America.

†b. Formerly applied with qualifications to various small saurians or lizards. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 141 A Scinke or a Crocodile of the earth.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 141 Of the Land Crocodie [sic] of Bresilia.

c. = crocodile-skin (see also quot. 1968).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skins of other animals

bear-hide?c1225

russwale1336

roan skin1446

rabbit skin1760

zebra skin1774

kangaroo-skin1777

rack1805

alligator1877

ocelot1903

crocodile1907

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 389/2 The ‘Gadabout’ writing case... Crocodile, lined sheep..67/6.

1908 Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 3/2 A large crocodile letter-case.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 19 Nov. 4/2 All the upholstering is in crocodile.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 237 Many so-called ‘crocodile’ accessories are in fact made from alligator skins, crocodile being particularly difficult to tan and preserve.

a. The crocodile was fabulously said to weep, either to allure a man for the purpose of devouring him, or while (or after) devouring him; hence many allusions in literature. (See also crocodile tears n. at Compounds 1a.)

ΚΠ

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxviii. 288 In that contre..ben gret plentee of Cokadrilles..Theise Serpentes slen men, and thei eten hem wepynge.

1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 534 In this riuer we saw many crocodils... His nature is euer when he would haue his praie, to crie, and sobbe like a christian bodie, to prouoke them to come to him, and then hee snatcheth at them.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E2 A cruell craftie Crocodile, Which in false griefe hyding his harmefull guile,..Sheddeth tender teares.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 135 The common prouerbe also, Crocodili lachrimæ, the crocodiles teares, iustifieth the treacherous nature of this beast.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 246 If that the earth could teeme with womens teares Each drop she falls, would proue a Crocadile .

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. s.v.

1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 36 More false than Crocodills, that mourn the slain, and yet delight to kill 'em.

1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job v. 21 His plighted Faith the Crocodile shall keep, And seeing thee, for Joy sincerely Weep.

b. Hence figurative. A person who weeps or makes a show of sorrow hypocritically or with a malicious purpose.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite > in sorrow

crocodile1595

1595 R. Barnfield Cassandra lxii, in Cynthia sig. E5 He..Sweetely salutes this weeping Crocodile.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. iv, in Wks. I. 598 O, my nephew knowes you belike: away crocodile .

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 199 Down he goes without hostages, where he finds the Crocodile ready to embrace him with tears of joy.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xliii The amorous crocodile shed a tear, and persisted in her double-faced course.

3. Logic. Name of an ancient sophism or dilemma; see crocodilite n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > types of logical argument > dilemma > types, variants, or elements of

pike1548

crocodilite1624

trilemma1672

crocodile1728

constructive dilemma1826

polylemmaa1856

tetralemmaa1856

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Crocodile, in Rhetorick, a captious and sophistical Kind of Argumentation.

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xxiii. 673 Many argue..who might..be caught on the horns of a dilemma, or who would..fall victims to the crocodile.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 295 Equally curious is the old dilemma of the crocodile.

4. colloquial (originally humorous).

a. A girls' school walking two and two in a long file. Also of a boys' school, etc.In use before 1870.

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society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession

processionOE

drightfarea1225

precessiona1400

processionc1400

walking1449

train1489

walk1563

processioning1593

band1611

solemnity1636

proceeding1660

cavalcade1670

parade1673

cortège1679

processionade1762

processional1820

crocodile1891

ram1912

processing1920

paseo1927

croc1948

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > school walking in order

crocodiling1889

crocodile1891

1891 H. Atteridge in Little Folks Nov. 326/1 He saw what boys sometimes call ‘a crocodile’—a girls' school out for a walk.

1898 J. K. Jerome Second Thoughts 311 We came upon a girls' school walking two and two,—a ‘crocodile’, they call it.

1922 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 487/2 The crocodile of small boys in the streets.

1926 I. M. Peacocke His Kid Brother ii. 37 To walk in a ‘crocodile’ of orphans.

1950 F. Swinnerton Flower for Catherine 107 One saw her leading the long lines of schoolgirls which are called ‘Crocodiles’.

1968 M. Bragg Without City Wall xx. 201 The crocodile rows of little children.

b. A long procession of moving objects close together. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > in disconnected line > procession or succession of moving people or objects

stream1600

crocodile1912

1912 H. G. Wells Marriage ii. 55 She drove her little crocodile of primly sensible thoughts to their sane appointed conclusion.

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 17 Aug. 136/2 Those roads which..do not carry an endless and snorting crocodile of cars.

1930 R. Pertwee Pursuit i. xi. 55 Transport would pile up before and behind you in a ceaselessly cursing crocodile.

5. A mechanical appliance with a notched or serrated edge suggestive of the upper jaw of a crocodile: (a) used as a builders' crane as a means of attaching the chain (see quot. 1901); (b) = crocodile squeezer n. at Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron (ed. 2) 302 The bloom, when finished at the crocodile.

1901 M. Beazeley Let. to Editor (O.E.D. Archive) The crocodile is used to bring the point of suspension over the centre of gravity of any mass that has to be lifted..when..the lewis-hole cannot be sunk at the centre of gravity.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

crocodile affectation n.

ΚΠ

1806 G. S. Faber Diss. II. 343 With a crocodile affectation of clemency.

crocodile flattery n.

ΚΠ

1678 Young Man's Calling 156 Believe him not: his crocodile flatteries have undone thousands.

crocodile Jesuit n.

ΚΠ

1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 5 in Athenæ Britannicæ III To a greater advantage of the Crocodyle-Jesuits.

crocodile skin n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from other specific animals

doeskin1457

buckskin1804

snake-skin1825

antelope1876

crocodile skin1887

lizard1895

prunella1904

seal-grain1906

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Mar. 6/1 The crocodile-skin bag may perhaps be called fashionable.

crocodile tears n. Often with allusion to the fabled weeping of the crocodile (see 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > in sorrow

crocodile tears1563

1563 E. Grindal in J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal (1710) i. vii. 78 I begin to fear, lest his humility..be a counterfeit humility, and his tears crocodile tears.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. s.v. Thence came the Prouerb, he shed Crocodile teares, viz. fayned teares.

1863 G. A. Sala Capt. Dangerous xvii Saying with crocodile tears, that he was not the first who had an undutiful son.

crocodile truck n.

ΚΠ

1892 Temple Bar July 348 Narrow gauge stock had also been conveyed westward in ‘crocodile’ trucks—ones with very low bodies.

crocodile-like adj.

ΚΠ

1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 347 These viprous, dessemblinge, and crockadillike currs.

1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride x. 61 A large iguana, almost crocodile-like in its proportion.

C2.

crocodile-bird n. the Egyptian black-headed plover, Pluvianus ægyptius, so called from its habit of eating the insect parasites of the crocodile, probably the trochilos of ancient writers.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius melanocephalus (crocodile-bird)

ziczac1844

crocodile-bird1868

1868 A. C. Smith Attractions Nile II. 255 Charadrius spinosus..in all probability the true ‘crocodile bird’ or trochilus of Herodotus.

1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush x. 142 The Egyptian ‘Plover’ (Pluvianus aegyptius) or crocodile bird has been the centre of controversy.

crocodile shears n. shears used in cutting into lengths and removing the faulty ends of steel or iron bars.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment

plate shears1599

cropping shears1873

crocodile shears1884

tinsnips1944

tinmen's snips1950

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] > types of

plate shears1599

stock-shears1688

right1846

snips1846

cropping shears1873

crocodile shears1884

kitchen scissors1907

tinsnips1944

tinmen's snips1950

1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 347 Puddled bars are..sheared hot either by crocodile or guillotine shears.

crocodile squeezer n. a machine with a pivoted upper jaw, used in the process of removing impurities from metals by the application of pressure.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > for pressing puddled ball

squeezer1843

shingler1864

crocodile squeezer1884

1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 301 The single alligator or crocodile squeezer has two broad flat jaws.

1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 302 The crocodile squeezer makes about 60 strokes per minute.

Derivatives

ˈcrocodile v. (from sense 4).

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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in order

troop1592

file1616

crocodile1889

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in order > of a school

crocodile1889

1889 [implied in: Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Apr. 6/1 He urged..the desirability of substituting lawn tennis..and even cricket, for the everlasting ‘crocodiling’ about the streets, which is so dear to the hearts of all schoolmistresses. (at crocodiling n. 1)].

1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xii. 116 The school crocodiled abroad with its instructresses.

1960 News Chron. 15 Mar. 4/5 The girls crocodile in, a mistress at head and tail.

1969 Guardian 25 July 9/5 The diminutive school-girls crocodiling through the Commonwealth Institute.

Draft additions September 2012

crocodile clip n. chiefly British a sprung clip with two tapered, serrated jaws; esp. a metal one used for making temporary electrical connections; = alligator clip n. at alligator n.² Compounds 4.

ΚΠ

1926 Wireless World 29 Dec. (advt.) 25/3 Three NP Crocodile Clips, 6d.

1955 Pop. Mech. July 118/2 Another wire leads from the battery case to a crocodile clip and a hooked copper wire.

2004 Cosmo Girl Aug. 132/3 Keep long hairdos looking pretty with an easy up-do fixed into place with crocodile clips or corsages.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	crocodile
释义	crocodilen. Brit. /ˈkrɒkədʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈkrɑkəˌdaɪl/ Forms: α. Middle English cokadrille, cokadryll(e, cokedril, cokedrill(e, Middle English–1500s cocodrill(e, cocodryll(e, Middle English cocodrile, coko-, coquodrille, cockadrylle, Middle English–1500s cocadryll(e; β. 1500s– crocodile, (1500s crocodrille, 1500s–1600s crocodil(l, 1600s crockadell, crocadile, crokidile, crokodile, 1700s crocodyle). Etymology: Middle English cocodrille, cokadrill, etc. < Old French cocodrille (13–17th cent.) = Provençal cocodrilh, Spanish cocodrilo, Italian coccodrillo, medieval Latin cocodrillus, corruption of Latin crocodīlus (also corcodilus), < Greek κροκόδειλος, found from Herodotus downward. The original form after Greek and Latin was restored in most of the modern languages in the 16–17th cent.: French crocodile (in Paré), Italian crocodillo (in Florio), Spanish crocodilo (in Percival). 1. a. A large amphibious saurian reptile of the genus Crocodilus or other allied genera. The name belongs originally and properly to the crocodile of the Nile ( C. niloticus or vulgaris); but is extended to other species of the same or allied genera, and sometimes to the whole of the Crocodilia, including the Alligators of America and the Gavial or ‘crocodile’ of the Ganges. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > member of crocodilec1300 cayman1577 crocodilian1836 the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] > suborder Eusuchia > family Crocodylidae > member of (crocodile) crocodilec1300 cockatricec1450 emydosaurian1837 rhombifer1875 croc1884 c1300 K. Alis. 6597 What best is the cokadrille. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 29 A cokedril..that is a beest of foure feete, hauynge the nether cheke lap vnmeuable, and meuynge the ouere. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton E viii b The cockadrylle is so stronge and so grete a serpent. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxxvi. 112 The grete multytude of serpentes and cocodrylles. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 184 Crocodrilles which they call Caymanes or Lizards of twenty foote long, with such Scales..as a Dragon hathe. 1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 390 A living Crocodile, brought from some of the W: Indian Ilands, in every respect resembling the Egyptian Crocodile. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 271 As a young Brood of Crocodiles, who swim In Ganges stream. 1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) iii. 63 Some huge salamander or crocodile of the Lias. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §491 This family..is divided into three genera, the Crocodiles, Alligators and Gavials..The true crocodiles are inhabitants of Africa, India, and the hotter parts of America. †b. Formerly applied with qualifications to various small saurians or lizards. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 141 A Scinke or a Crocodile of the earth. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 141 Of the Land Crocodie [sic] of Bresilia. c. = crocodile-skin (see also quot. 1968). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skins of other animals bear-hide?c1225 russwale1336 roan skin1446 rabbit skin1760 zebra skin1774 kangaroo-skin1777 rack1805 alligator1877 ocelot1903 crocodile1907 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 389/2 The ‘Gadabout’ writing case... Crocodile, lined sheep..67/6. 1908 Daily Chron. 15 Aug. 3/2 A large crocodile letter-case. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 19 Nov. 4/2 All the upholstering is in crocodile. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 237 Many so-called ‘crocodile’ accessories are in fact made from alligator skins, crocodile being particularly difficult to tan and preserve. 2. a. The crocodile was fabulously said to weep, either to allure a man for the purpose of devouring him, or while (or after) devouring him; hence many allusions in literature. (See also crocodile tears n. at Compounds 1a.) ΚΠ c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxviii. 288 In that contre..ben gret plentee of Cokadrilles..Theise Serpentes slen men, and thei eten hem wepynge. 1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 534 In this riuer we saw many crocodils... His nature is euer when he would haue his praie, to crie, and sobbe like a christian bodie, to prouoke them to come to him, and then hee snatcheth at them. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E2 A cruell craftie Crocodile, Which in false griefe hyding his harmefull guile,..Sheddeth tender teares. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 135 The common prouerbe also, Crocodili lachrimæ, the crocodiles teares, iustifieth the treacherous nature of this beast. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 246 If that the earth could teeme with womens teares Each drop she falls, would proue a Crocadile . View more context for this quotation 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. s.v. 1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 36 More false than Crocodills, that mourn the slain, and yet delight to kill 'em. 1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job v. 21 His plighted Faith the Crocodile shall keep, And seeing thee, for Joy sincerely Weep. b. Hence figurative. A person who weeps or makes a show of sorrow hypocritically or with a malicious purpose. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite > in sorrow crocodile1595 1595 R. Barnfield Cassandra lxii, in Cynthia sig. E5 He..Sweetely salutes this weeping Crocodile. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. iv, in Wks. I. 598 O, my nephew knowes you belike: away crocodile . View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 199 Down he goes without hostages, where he finds the Crocodile ready to embrace him with tears of joy. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xliii The amorous crocodile shed a tear, and persisted in her double-faced course. 3. Logic. Name of an ancient sophism or dilemma; see crocodilite n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > types of logical argument > dilemma > types, variants, or elements of pike1548 crocodilite1624 trilemma1672 crocodile1728 constructive dilemma1826 polylemmaa1856 tetralemmaa1856 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Crocodile, in Rhetorick, a captious and sophistical Kind of Argumentation. 1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xxiii. 673 Many argue..who might..be caught on the horns of a dilemma, or who would..fall victims to the crocodile. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 295 Equally curious is the old dilemma of the crocodile. 4. colloquial (originally humorous). a. A girls' school walking two and two in a long file. Also of a boys' school, etc.In use before 1870. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession processionOE drightfarea1225 precessiona1400 processionc1400 walking1449 train1489 walk1563 processioning1593 band1611 solemnity1636 proceeding1660 cavalcade1670 parade1673 cortège1679 processionade1762 processional1820 crocodile1891 ram1912 processing1920 paseo1927 croc1948 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > school walking in order crocodiling1889 crocodile1891 1891 H. Atteridge in Little Folks Nov. 326/1 He saw what boys sometimes call ‘a crocodile’—a girls' school out for a walk. 1898 J. K. Jerome Second Thoughts 311 We came upon a girls' school walking two and two,—a ‘crocodile’, they call it. 1922 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 487/2 The crocodile of small boys in the streets. 1926 I. M. Peacocke His Kid Brother ii. 37 To walk in a ‘crocodile’ of orphans. 1950 F. Swinnerton Flower for Catherine 107 One saw her leading the long lines of schoolgirls which are called ‘Crocodiles’. 1968 M. Bragg Without City Wall xx. 201 The crocodile rows of little children. b. A long procession of moving objects close together. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > in disconnected line > procession or succession of moving people or objects stream1600 crocodile1912 1912 H. G. Wells Marriage ii. 55 She drove her little crocodile of primly sensible thoughts to their sane appointed conclusion. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 17 Aug. 136/2 Those roads which..do not carry an endless and snorting crocodile of cars. 1930 R. Pertwee Pursuit i. xi. 55 Transport would pile up before and behind you in a ceaselessly cursing crocodile. 5. A mechanical appliance with a notched or serrated edge suggestive of the upper jaw of a crocodile: (a) used as a builders' crane as a means of attaching the chain (see quot. 1901); (b) = crocodile squeezer n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron (ed. 2) 302 The bloom, when finished at the crocodile. 1901 M. Beazeley Let. to Editor (O.E.D. Archive) The crocodile is used to bring the point of suspension over the centre of gravity of any mass that has to be lifted..when..the lewis-hole cannot be sunk at the centre of gravity. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. crocodile affectation n. ΚΠ 1806 G. S. Faber Diss. II. 343 With a crocodile affectation of clemency. crocodile flattery n. ΚΠ 1678 Young Man's Calling 156 Believe him not: his crocodile flatteries have undone thousands. crocodile Jesuit n. ΚΠ 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 5 in Athenæ Britannicæ III To a greater advantage of the Crocodyle-Jesuits. crocodile skin n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from other specific animals doeskin1457 buckskin1804 snake-skin1825 antelope1876 crocodile skin1887 lizard1895 prunella1904 seal-grain1906 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Mar. 6/1 The crocodile-skin bag may perhaps be called fashionable. crocodile tears n. Often with allusion to the fabled weeping of the crocodile (see 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > in sorrow crocodile tears1563 1563 E. Grindal in J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal (1710) i. vii. 78 I begin to fear, lest his humility..be a counterfeit humility, and his tears crocodile tears. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. s.v. Thence came the Prouerb, he shed Crocodile teares, viz. fayned teares. 1863 G. A. Sala Capt. Dangerous xvii Saying with crocodile tears, that he was not the first who had an undutiful son. crocodile truck n. ΚΠ 1892 Temple Bar July 348 Narrow gauge stock had also been conveyed westward in ‘crocodile’ trucks—ones with very low bodies. b. crocodile-like adj. ΚΠ 1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 347 These viprous, dessemblinge, and crockadillike currs. 1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride x. 61 A large iguana, almost crocodile-like in its proportion. C2. crocodile-bird n. the Egyptian black-headed plover, Pluvianus ægyptius, so called from its habit of eating the insect parasites of the crocodile, probably the trochilos of ancient writers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius melanocephalus (crocodile-bird) ziczac1844 crocodile-bird1868 1868 A. C. Smith Attractions Nile II. 255 Charadrius spinosus..in all probability the true ‘crocodile bird’ or trochilus of Herodotus. 1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush x. 142 The Egyptian ‘Plover’ (Pluvianus aegyptius) or crocodile bird has been the centre of controversy. crocodile shears n. shears used in cutting into lengths and removing the faulty ends of steel or iron bars. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment plate shears1599 cropping shears1873 crocodile shears1884 tinsnips1944 tinmen's snips1950 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] > types of plate shears1599 stock-shears1688 right1846 snips1846 cropping shears1873 crocodile shears1884 kitchen scissors1907 tinsnips1944 tinmen's snips1950 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 347 Puddled bars are..sheared hot either by crocodile or guillotine shears. crocodile squeezer n. a machine with a pivoted upper jaw, used in the process of removing impurities from metals by the application of pressure. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > for pressing puddled ball squeezer1843 shingler1864 crocodile squeezer1884 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 301 The single alligator or crocodile squeezer has two broad flat jaws. 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 302 The crocodile squeezer makes about 60 strokes per minute. Derivatives ˈcrocodile v. (from sense 4). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in order troop1592 file1616 crocodile1889 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in order > of a school crocodile1889 1889 [implied in: Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Apr. 6/1 He urged..the desirability of substituting lawn tennis..and even cricket, for the everlasting ‘crocodiling’ about the streets, which is so dear to the hearts of all schoolmistresses. (at crocodiling n. 1)]. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xii. 116 The school crocodiled abroad with its instructresses. 1960 News Chron. 15 Mar. 4/5 The girls crocodile in, a mistress at head and tail. 1969 Guardian 25 July 9/5 The diminutive school-girls crocodiling through the Commonwealth Institute. Draft additions September 2012 crocodile clip n. chiefly British a sprung clip with two tapered, serrated jaws; esp. a metal one used for making temporary electrical connections; = alligator clip n. at alligator n.² Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1926 Wireless World 29 Dec. (advt.) 25/3 Three NP Crocodile Clips, 6d. 1955 Pop. Mech. July 118/2 Another wire leads from the battery case to a crocodile clip and a hooked copper wire. 2004 Cosmo Girl Aug. 132/3 Keep long hairdos looking pretty with an easy up-do fixed into place with crocodile clips or corsages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300
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