Meanings of old crock in English

I'm a broken-down old crock, no longer a pagan; but I'm right.

I've had enough of that old crock I borrowed for you.

He doesn't want to see an old crock like me.

In a lecture he got an immense laugh by calling Queen Elizabeth an ' old crock.'

She paid the cabman, who touched his hat with quick and grateful emphasis, and, wheeling his old crock round, clattered away.

My keb gone, my best hoss killed, an' a pore old crock left, worth abart enough to pay the week's stablin'.

All the same this old crock'll have to struggle on until nightfall, and then we'll see whether we'll have to shoot it.

So they've quit sending old crocks to beg, have they?

However, amongst the witty references to old crocks, fossils and bog bodies, a most important point is lost.

"Welcome to the home for derelicts, broken china, and old crocks," they said.

"Nice old crock to go tiger-shootin' with," he told the Princess.

"'Ope I meets yer again when I've an old crock on the go."

"I know the old crock-trotter," scorned the true riding jockey.

"I'm a real old crock now; that much is obvious." And he slapped his half-useless legs.

Full of humour and worldplay, character touches and silliness, the play has some tough comment to make about the presumptious treatment of old crocks.

"Then the old crocks were yellow?"