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- English Word Rock Definition To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
- English Word Rock Definition To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
- English Word Rock Definition To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
- English Word Rock Definition To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
- English Word Rock shaft Definition A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
- English Word Rock staff Definition An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
- English Word Rockaway Definition Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.
- English Word Rocked Definition of Rock
- English Word Rockelay Definition Alt. of Rocklay
- English Word Rocker Definition One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
- English Word Rocker Definition One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
- English Word Rocker Definition Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- English Word Rocker Definition A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
- English Word Rocker Definition A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
- English Word Rocker Definition A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- English Word Rocker Definition Same as Rock shaft.
- English Word Rockered Definition Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.
- English Word Rockery Definition A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
- English Word Rocket Definition A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
- English Word Rocket Definition Damewort.
- English Word Rocket Definition Rocket larkspur. See below.
- English Word Rocket Definition An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
- English Word Rocket Definition A blunt lance head used in the joust.
- English Word Rocket Definition To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
- English Word Rocketed Definition of Rocket
- English Word Rocketer Definition A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
- English Word Rocketing Definition of Rocket
- English Word Rockfish Definition Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
- English Word Rockfish Definition The striped bass. See Bass.
- English Word Rockfish Definition Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.