Fromcrocker(“(obsolete) potter”) +-ery(suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ formingnouns).[1]Crocker is derived fromcrock(“earthenware or stoneware jar or storage container”) +-er(suffix attached to nouns indicating persons whose occupations are indicated by the nouns);crock is fromMiddle Englishcrok,crokke(“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”)[and other forms], fromOld Englishcrocc,crocca(“crock, pot, vessel”)[and other forms],[2][3] fromProto-Germanic*krukkō,*krukkô(“vessel”), fromProto-Indo-European*growg-(“vessel”).
All the street was lined with wretched hucksters and their merchandise of gooseberries, green apples, children's dirty cakes, cheapcrockeries, brushes, and tin-ware; among which objects the people were swarming about busily.
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