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Rocker

noun

An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle.

A performer or composer or fan of rock music. Synonym: rock 'n' roll musician.

A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles.

A chair mounted on rockers. Synonym: rocking chair.

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.

An ice skate with a curved blade.

A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro.

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"Rocker" Quotes from Famous Books

... employed by him, and one cart or wagon; the tools and implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade; the instruments and chests of a surgeon, physician, surveyor, and dentist; the law libraries of an attorney and counsellor; the cabin or dwelling of a miner, and his pick, rocker, wheelbarrow, and other implements necessary to carry on mining operations; two oxen, two horses or two mules and their harness, and one cart or wagon of the cartman, hackman, or teamster; and one horse with vehicle and harness and other equipments used by a physician, ...

— Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State • Stephen Field; George C. Gorham

... out, but he neither quickened his pace nor slowed it. While he had been three doors away in the lake-fronting street, a small pocket binocular had assured him that the young woman he was going to call upon was sitting in a porch rocker behind the ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... little rocker, of carved ivory, inlaid with gold, was standing in the bay-window overlooking the avenue, and beside it there was ...

— The Masked Bridal • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... apart from yours. Whether you can do anything that I ask of you or not, I shall be happy then, as I would be now, to do you any just and right service.... Perhaps I have mistaken my vocation. Certainly, if I was back with my rocker on the Tuolumne, I'd make it rattle livelier than ever I did before. I have occasionally thought of London Bridge, but the Thames is now so d—-d cold and dirty, and besides I can swim, and any attempt at drowning would, through the mere instinct of ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

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