Usually means: Color transfer from rubbing fabric.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. crocking: Merriam-Webster
  2. crocking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. crocking: Vocabulary.com
  4. crocking: Wiktionary
  5. Crocking, crocking: Dictionary.com
  6. Crocking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Crocking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. crocking: FreeDictionary.org
  9. crocking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crocking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crocking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crocking: Idioms

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  1. Crocking: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See crock as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Crock)

noun:  A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
noun:  A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
noun:  (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
noun:  (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
noun:  (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
noun:  A low stool.
noun:  (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
verb:  To break something or injure someone.
verb:  (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
verb:  (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
verb:  (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
noun:  The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
noun:  Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
verb:  (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
noun:  A surname.
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