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Rocker   /rˈɑkər/   Listen
Rocker

noun
1.
An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle.
2.
A performer or composer or fan of rock music.  Synonym: rock 'n' roll musician.
3.
A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles.
4.
A chair mounted on rockers.  Synonym: rocking chair.
5.
A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold.  Synonym: cradle.
6.
An ice skate with a curved blade.
7.
A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro.



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"Rocker" Quotes from Famous Books



... in halves surrounding it 5 in. thick. One half ring is rigidly attached to the tie and one to the hanging chain, so that the wear due to any movement is distributed over the length of the pin. A rocker bearing under these pins transmits the load at the joint to the steel columns of the towers. The abutment towers are similar to the river towers. On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties. The suspension chains are constructed ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... had, Mr. Mullins," said Quigg, seating himself in the rocker, the blossoms half strangled in ...
— Tom Grogan • F. Hopkinson Smith
... of the narrow hall opened. A slumberous heat from a sheet-iron wood-stove pervaded the place, and a clock ticked monotonously on a shelf in the corner. Mrs. Gaylord said, "Won't you take a chair?" and herself sank into the rocker, with a deep feather cushion in the seat, and a thinner feather cushion tied half-way up the back. After the more active duties of her housekeeping were done, she sat every day in this chair with her knitting or sewing, and let the clock tick the long hours of her life ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... Kitchenward, to be sure, there was a great deal of cheerful laughter and chatter, as Ellie, sitting heavily ensconced in the largest rocker, embroidered a centrepiece for her sister's birthday, Annie read fortunes in the teacups, Alfred imitated the supercilious manner of a lady who had called that afternoon upon Mrs. Breckenridge, and Helda, a milk-blond ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... parrot that always sat on top of a door in this room and when the mistress came in the room the mean old bird hollered out at the top of his voice, 'Its in the rocker. It's in the rocker'. Well the Missus found the cookies and told her husband where upon the husband called his man that done the whipping and they tied the poor cook to the stake and whipped her till she ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: The Ohio Narratives • Works Projects Administration


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