crocking

As I watched the news this week, I saw a Karl Rove standing beside the President, his voice crocking, talking about his love for Bush and his country but over that “noise,” I heard the memory of Joe Koons whispering in my ear.

Boing Boing 2007

Care and skill in the use of dyes can produce products that resist bleeding, crocking, frosting, and discoloration.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Care and skill in the use of dyes can produce products that resist bleeding, crocking, frosting, and discoloration.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Care and skill in the use of dyes can produce products that resist bleeding, crocking, frosting, and discoloration.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Care and skill in the use of dyes can produce products that resist bleeding, crocking, frosting, and discoloration.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

That was when she heard the loud, crocking sound, like a car backfiring.

Baby In My Arms Harper, Madeline 1996

For pots above four inches in diameter, provide drainage by "crocking."

Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse 1930

The depth of the drainage material, or crocking, will be from half an inch to three inches, according to the size of the pot.

Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse 1930

If any of the crocking from the old pot comes out with the ball of earth, remove it as carefully as possible and fill in the space with soil.

Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse 1930

In the event of one man crocking a five-man party may be better able to cope with the situation, but with this doubtful exception Scott had nothing to gain and a good deal to lose by taking an extra man to the

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922