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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.
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The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
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A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
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Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
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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.
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Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
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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.
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A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
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Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.
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A rockery.
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Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
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Being without rocks.
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A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
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Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
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A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
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The state or quality of being rocky.
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Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
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Rocket larkspur. See below.
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