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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CROCKER

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A maker of coarse pottery. The word crock signified a large barrel-shaped jar. Chaucer says: "Spurn not as doth a crocke against a wal."

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).