Crossword clues for rocking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rocking \Rock"ing\, a. Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
Rocking shaft. (Mach.) See Rock shaft.
Rock \Rock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rocked;p. pr. & vb. n. Rocking.] [AS. roccian; akin to Dan. rokke to move, to snake; cf. Icel. rukkja to pull, move, G. r["u]cken to move, push, pull.]
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To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
A rising earthquake rocked the ground.
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To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. ``Sleep rock thy brain.''
--Shak.Note: Rock differs from shake, as denoting a slower, less violent, and more uniform motion, or larger movements. It differs from swing, which expresses a vibratory motion of something suspended.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
(context informal English) excellent; great n. The motion of something that rocks. v
(present participle of rock English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Rocking may refer to:
- Rocking chair
- Uprock, the street dance known as "Rocking"
Usage examples of "rocking".
Apparently satisfied it would support his weight, he leaned back, rocking gently while Abie prepared their coffee.
Syrinx watched in utter fascination as the two passed within fifty metres of the boat, rocking it alarmingly in their pounding wake.
Cloud snorted and the other horses acted bothered, but the ambient was otherwise quiet, and Cloud settled to being brushed again, rocking gently to the strong strokes Danny put into it.
Bird-shaped lamps hung from the eaves, rocking in the breezes, their glass tinted in Argali colors, rose, gold, and green.
The stench of tar, the creak of timbers, the splash of the swell of an ice-cold sea, the incessant rocking all told him he was still a prisoner on the Azhkendi vessel, sailing ever farther away from Astasia by the hour.
There was a small aviso rocking gently in the bay, which he recognized immediately.
The azimuth array was rocking from right to left like a spectator at a tennis match, while its tall, thin companion, the elevation array, was nodding up and down from earth to sky as its invisible beam searched the heavens.
For those babies who repeatedly reject a bottle, some parents have reported that fast, rhythmic rocking while offering a bottle can work.
A little man with a gray mustache and matching sweater was sitting and rocking on the veranda when Admiral Beagle took the steps.
The boy, dressed in bib overalls and barefooted, was standing in the open bay of the barn, just above the carved letters which said Rocking B.
Much later, Macklin sat with Ned Buntline on the front porch of the Hacienda, leaning back in a rocking chair as he studied the sparse traffic on Franklin Street.
Week--1924: Returning to Paris from Strasbourg: The approach to Paris through the Valley of the Marne--Winter--The very magnificent rainbow--the rocking clacketing train.
Aimil shook her head, slowly went to where the bit of broken combox was still rocking on its curved edge where it had landed, bent down even more slowly, and picked it up.
The woman who had defecated on the grass of the airing court had devised a dance of her own: she made a trancelike pattern with both arms held out in front of her, as though perhaps rocking a large child in her arms, while her face, in which the mouth was puckered inward over blackened gums, was stretched by an expression of concentrated wonder.
Even Rose-whom January knew to be a deist, without belief in Heaven or Hell-wept, rocking back and forth in a corner of the bedroom with her arms folded across her breast.