The Collaborative International Dictionary
Croker \Cro"ker\ (kr[=o]"k[~e]r), n. [Gr. kro`kos saffron.]
A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.]
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Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.
Wikipedia
Croker Oars is an Australian manufacturer of rowing oars that was started by Howard Croker OAM in Sydney, Australia. During the 1950s, Croker and his two brothers were students at Newington College and their father was a rowing coach at the school. He was also a successful rower in the 1960s, winning both State and National rowing titles. Croker rowed for the then Haberfield Rowing Club at Dobroyd Point and was a coach in the years 1975 and 1976 at The Scots College. Croker Oars currently produce sculling and sweep oars for the Australian and international market. Croker also manufactures surf boat oars. Many elite rowers use Croker oars and together with Concept2 oars they make up the majority of oars used in international competition.
Croker may refer to:
People- Bithia Mary Croker (née Sheppard, 1849–1920), Anglo-Indian novelist
- Brendan Croker (born 1953), British musician
- Charlie Croker, fictional character and protagonist in the British film The Italian Job
- Cyril Hendry Croker (1888–1958), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
- David Croker (1932–2006), British environmental activist
- T. F. Dillon Croker (1831–1912), British antiquary and poet
- Garry Croker, Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby and table tennis player
- Jarrod Croker (born 1990), Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Jason Croker (born 1973), Australian rugby league player
- John Wilson Croker (1780–1857), Irish statesman and author
- C. Martin Croker (born 1962), American animator and voice actor
- Nigel Croker, fictional character in the British TV programme Mile High
- Norma Croker (born 1934), Australian former sprinter
- Peter Croker (1921–2011), English footballer
- Richard Croker (1843–1922), American politician
- Robin Croker, British cyclist
- Ted Croker (1924–1992), English football administrator
- Theo Croker (born 1985), American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader
- Thomas Crofton Croker (1798–1854), Irish antiquary
- Croker Bay, Nunavut, Canada
- Croker Hill, Peak District, England
- Croker Island, Northern Territory, Australia
- Croker Passage, Antarctica
- Croker River, Nunavut, Canada
- An informal name for Croke Park, a sports stadium in Ireland
- Croker Oars, Australian manufacturer of rowing oars
Usage examples of "croker".
Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors in Carleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde.
Yeats reproduces from Croker, though not from the work of his which has already been mentioned.
Barcelona This book is dedicated in loving memory to my mother, Jaquith Juin Croker Chapter One.
The grandmother came from behind the corner of the house and, picking up the old croker sack, started to the thicket for dead twigs.
The week before, he had come upon Sulk at the dinner hour, sneaking with a croker sack into the pen where the young turkeys were.
His uncle, the one who'd gone off to Africa in the Army, used to say, if he liked how a woman's ass moved when she walked, that it looked like two baby bobcats in a croker sack.
Because it is himself that the Southerner is writing about, not about his environment: who has, figuratively speaking, taken the artist in him in one hand and his milieu in the other and thrust the one into the other like a clawing and spitting cat into a croker sack.