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Rocker
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- 1 A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
"The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds."
- 2 a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro wordnet
- 3 A rocking chair.
"A few days before he turned 80 He was sittin' out back in a rocker"
- 4 an ice skate with a curved blade wordnet
- 5 The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
"All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones https://web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm"
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- 6 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 wordnet
- 7 The breve below as in ḫ.
"Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian."
- 8 a chair mounted on rockers wordnet
- 9 Someone passionate about rock music.
- 10 a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles wordnet
- 11 A musician who plays rock music.
- 12 a performer or composer or fan of rock music wordnet
- 13 A rock music song. informal
""Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]"
- 14 an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle wordnet
- 15 One who rocks something.
"It was I Sir (ſaid the Rocker) who had the honour (ſome thirty years ſince) to attend on your Highneſs in your Infancie, […]"
- 16 A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music. UK
- 17 Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- 18 A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- 19 A rocking horse.
- 20 A rocker board.
- 21 A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- 22 A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- 23 A rock shaft.
- 24 A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
"Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset."
Etymology
From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + -er.
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