Crossword clues for rockaway
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rockaway \Rock"a*way\, [Probably from Rockaway beach, where it was used.] Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated uncommon English) A light, low, four-wheeled carriage with standing top, open at the sides, but with waterproof curtains for bad weather. 2 (context dated uncommon English) A similar but heavier carriage, enclosed except at the front, and with a door at each side.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2491
Land area (2000): 2.088806 sq. miles (5.409983 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017358 sq. miles (0.044956 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.106164 sq. miles (5.454939 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64050
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.900365 N, 74.513557 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07866
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rockaway
Wikipedia
Rockaway may refer to:
Rockaway is a term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side. The name may be derived from the town of Rockaway, New Jersey, where carriages were originally made. It is featured in Melville's short story " Bartleby" as the narrator's mode of transport while avoiding the landlords and tenants looking for help in kicking Bartleby out.
But the Long Island Museum of Art, American History and Carriages, located in Stony Brook, New York, has a different explanation of the name. According to the Museum, the carriage was designed and built in Jamaica, Queens—a major hub for New York City residents traveling to Long Island for recreation—and was called the Rockaway because it was used to shuttle passengers between Jamaica and the Atlantic Ocean beaches of Long Island's Rockaway Peninsula.
Usage examples of "rockaway".
Chapter 5 The subway line ended at Rockaway Parkway and Glenwood Road, in Canarsie.
The Rockaway Car Rental was a small shack on a lot between two private houses.
They drove nine blocks down Rockaway Parkway, then through an underpass under the Belt Parkway and around a circle to a broad cobblestone pier sticking out into Jamaica Bay.
They bumped over the sidewalk to the street and drove across Rockaway Parkway into the darkness on the other side.
Parker paused at the fence, watched, listened, then stepped through and turned left, away from Rockaway Parkway and the subway entrance.
There was a decent enough horse, a white one, between the shafts of the rockaway, and another, a light dapple gray, to draw the first wagon.
So Edge got down from the rockaway and went to unharness Thunder from the cage wagon.
Without waiting for Florian to pull up, Edge swung down from the rockaway seat.
The rockaway was truly rocking, also pitching and lurching and bouncing, over a grievously rutted and blistered and scabbed and chuck-holed road on which even the four-footed Snowball was having to watch his step.
Edge jumped down from the driving seat, through the hanging cloud of blue smoke, Sarah Coverley was leaning out of the rockaway, her eyes wide.
They hurried to set up the Big Top, and then Florian carefully brushed the road dust from his new beaver hat and his old frock coat, and started to climb onto the rockaway again.
Baltimore, late on a gray and rainy afternoon, Florian was still up front on the rockaway, but inside it the two redheads rode in leisurely comfort.
When he stopped his rockaway on a wet greensward there, he addressed the company.
Edge delegated Yount to keep an eye on it, and he climbed into the rockaway to go downtown with Florian and Fitzfarris.
The elephant, with the caged Maximus for company, and two other wagons were positioned along the starboard side of the open foredeck, the rockaway and the remaining three wagons on the port side.