The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rocket \Rock"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rocketing.] (Sporting) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. [Eng.]
An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me.
--H. R.
Haggard.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of rocket English)
Usage examples of "rocketing".
Then the flow from the tanks would commence and the rocketing would continue.
Tom watched the master screen of his scanner and saw the ship rocketing closer and closer with no change in speed or course.
Sky Captain left the city far behind, rocketing across water, across land, through splashes of cottony clouds.
Now this fool of a Fusilier had prised apart the lips of the rush basket to look at the bird, and it had exploded up at him, flying desperately about the chamber before seeing daylight and rocketing out into the valley.