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Crocker

Crocker \Crock"er\ (-[~e]r), n. A potter. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.

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crocker

n. a potter.

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Crocker, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 1033
Housing Units (2000): 517
Land area (2000): 1.189548 sq. miles (3.080914 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.189548 sq. miles (3.080914 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17344
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.949542 N, 92.265660 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65452
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Crocker

__NOTOC__ Crocker is an archaic synonym of potter. Modern usage comes primarily from the surname: Crocker (name).

Crocker (sport)

Crocker (sometimes spelled Croccer) is a team sport played between two large teams. Its origins are in cricket and baseball. It also makes the use of a soccer ball which may explain its name. It is a casual sport not played formally, but often found on British summer camps.

Crocker (name)

Crocker is a surname shared by several notable real and fictional people, among them being:

in Australia
  • Sir Walter Crocker (1902–2002), Australian diplomat
  • Barry Crocker (born 1935), Australian singer
  • Harold 'Mick' Crocker (born 1927), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Michael Crocker (born 1980), Australian rugby league player
in the United Kingdom
  • Henry Radcliffe Crocker (1846–1909), dermatologist
  • Sir John Crocker (1896–1963), World War II British army officer
  • Ian Crocker (commentator) (living), British football radio commentator
  • John Crocker (jazz musician) (living), retired English jazz musician
in the United States
  • Uriel Crocker (1798–1887), American railroad and publishing entrepreneur
  • Alvah Crocker (1801–1874), American politician
  • Samuel L. Crocker (1804–1883), American politician
  • Hans Crocker (1815, Ireland–1889), American lawyer and politician
  • Charles Crocker (1822–1888), American railroad tycoon
  • Marcellus M. Crocker (1830–1865), Civil War general
  • William H. Crocker (1861–1937), American entrepreneur
  • Albert Crocker (1882–1961), American inventor and entrepreneur
  • Harry Crocker (1893–1958), American film actor
  • Lester G. Crocker (1912–2002), American historian of ideas (French enlightenment)
  • Fay Crocker (born c. 1914, Uruguay), professional golfer
  • Frankie Crocker (1937–2000), American radio personality
  • Chester Crocker (born 1941), American diplomat
  • Steve Crocker (born 1944), American computer systems researcher
  • Ryan Crocker (born 1949), American diplomat
  • Lee Daniel Crocker (born 1963), American free software developer
  • Jon B. Crocker (born 1965), American lawyer and entrepreneur
  • Erin Crocker (born 1981), American race car driver
  • Jon Crocker (born 1981), American musician
  • Ian Crocker (born 1982), American Olympic swimming medalist
  • Chris Crocker (born 1987), American internet celebrity

Usage examples of "crocker".

Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.

Captain Crocker was frowning, and even Commander Mown looked concerned as he read the sheet of hard copy Crocker had passed to him.

Crocker, the well-known American welter-weight scrapper, succeeded in stopping Lord Percy Whipple, second son of the Duke of Devizes, better known as the Pride of Old England.

The consulate in Zanzibar, and Crocker and the Germans in Tanga all assure us that the journey is safe and straightforward, so you are not to worry about me, my dearest one.

Crocker had an instance of this nature in a man with tylosis palmae, in which the skin was cast off every autumn, but the process lasted two months.

Drew they had previously used on the front page, but through his research unit, Crocker had already worked up some photographs of Christopher Drew in college and even one that accompanied a story about his theories of parascience printed in Science Digest .

Crocker the assemblage had the appearance of being a sort of Old Home Week of Petts, a kind of Pett family mob-scene.

According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.

While Cerf and Crocker were academic stars, Postel, who was twenty-five, had had a more checkered academic career.

Crocker, Postel, Wingfield, Vint and Sigrid Cerf, and a handful of curiosity seekers.

Often they were joined by Cerf, and occasionally by Crocker and Postel as well.

Al Vezza, Bob Kahn, Steve Crocker, Len Kleinrock, Jon Postel, Alex McKenzie, and Larry Roberts.

The following people allowed us to interview them at length: Wes Clark, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Severo Ornstein, Bob Taylor, Larry Roberts, Jon Postel, Frank Heart, Alex McKenzie, Dave Walden, Ben Barker, Donald Davies, Paul Baran, Len Kleinrock, Steve Lukasik, Steve Crocker, and Bob Metcalfe.

According to Crocker in some cases they can be shown to be a part of trophic changes.

On our third and final night at Arusha, Hannes was excited that his work was about to start and Crocker, who had so far shot little but wildebeest, had the scent of bigger game in his nostrils.