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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
  • A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
  • A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
  • A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
  • A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
  • An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
  • A rest for the receiver of a telephone.
  • A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
  • A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
  • A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
  • figurative Infancy, or very early life.
  • figurative The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
  • nautical A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

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Verb:

  • lacrosse To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
  • transitive To contain in or as if in a cradle.
  • transitive To rock (''a baby to sleep'').
  • transitive To wrap protectively.

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