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noun

Rocker n.

One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle. "It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy."

One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.

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.

A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.

A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.

A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

(Mach.) Same as Rock shaft.

Rocker arm (Mach.), an arm borne by a rock shaft.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rocker" Quotes from Famous Books

... sitting over the hearth, the elder woman gazing wearily into the dying embers of the fire, and nursing her chin on her hand; while the younger, with her clog upon the rocker of a deal cradle, gave to that ark of infancy the gentle and monotonous movement which from time immemorial has ...

— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather

... herself in a rocker, and looked at him for a moment without speaking. She seemed to have something on her mind, and not to know exactly how ...

— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

... slowly, "is what I don't quite know. One of them bones is a rocker, and she swings on the other. That one's cut, but I don't think it's smashed right through. Now if it goes as well as the other, it's quite possible Harry will limp ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... motion was just being introduced into American locomotive practice in the early 1850's. Four eccentrics drive the motion; two are for forward motion and two for reverse. The link is split and made of two curved pieces. The rocker is fabricated of several forged pieces keyed and bolted together. On better made engines the rocker would be a one-piece forging. The lower arm of each rocker is curiously shaped, made with a slot so that the link block may be adjusted. Generally, the only adjustment possible ...

— The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 • John H. White

... yellow woman from Asia, with queer, wide trousers for skirts and rocker-soled shoes that flopped against her heels. Her uncovered black hair was firmly knotted and securely pinned and her eyes were black of color and soft of look. * * * She saw the morning sun push its way through a sea of amber and the nickel dome of the great ...

— The California Birthday Book • Various

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