A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Crok, Crock, n. [Of obscure origin.] An old ewe. Also attrib. with schepe.1456 Hay II. 157/21.
Sum man stoppit as a crok, and sum clere syngand as a nychtingale c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 248.
Rottin crok, dirten dok, cry cok, or I sall quell thé c1500-c1512 Kennedy Ib. 484.
A rottyn crok, louse of the dok, thare doun c1500-c1512 Dunb. lv. 18.
Sunv … Ar now maid tame lyk ony lammis, And settin down lyk sarye crockis 1528 Lynd. Dreme 893.
Quho wyll go sers amang sic heirdis scheip, May habyll fynd mony pure scabbit crok 1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 234.
Sex crok schepe, price of the pece xvj s. viij d.
