What is "crocks"

Usage examples of "crocks".

When all the porridge had been ladled into wooden bowls, she sliced long loaves of bread and set them out on a wooden tray, filled the small crocks with butter and honey which were placed at intervals along the breakfast table, and as the benches filled with black-clad forms, passed among them, pouring from pitchers of cold milk or hot bark tea.

With the others now crowding into the kitchen with dirty plates and crocks, all serious issues were swamped in joke and chatter and chastising- the happy facade had been resumed.