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What is "rocking chair"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rocking chair
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He sat in a rocking chair that faced the door.
▪ In the living room, I sit, feet up, huddled in a rocking chair.
▪ Matt cradles Alexandra in the rocking chair since she is having no part of her planned bedtime.
▪ She had stolen a braided rug from the foot of his own bed and a rocking chair from the garage.
▪ There was a miniature rocking chair, and against the end wall a single bed with a miniature canopy over it.
▪ They sat in armchairs in a low-beamed room at the front while Archer perched in a rocking chair.
Wiktionary
rocking chair

n. A chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked (swung) back and forth.

WordNet
rocking chair

n. a chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocker]

Wikipedia
Rocking Chair

A rocking chair is a piece of furniture.

Rocking Chair, Rockin' Chair, or Rocking Chairs may also refer to:

  • "Rockin' Chair" (1929 song), a 1929 popular song with music composed by Hoagy Carmichael
  • "Rockin' Chair" (Gwen McCrae song), a 1975 crossover single by Gwen McCrae
  • Rockin' Chair (Roy Eldridge album)
  • Rockin' Chair (album), an album by singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards
  • Rockin' Chairs - a doo-wop band active in the 1950s

Usage examples of "rocking chair".

The living room was simply furnished with a couch and a rocking chair, arranged around a rag rug spread in front of the stone fireplace.

A clean-shaven Cash was sitting in an oversize rocking chair with a tiny baby tucked into the crook of his arm.

Seated on the rocking chair was a little girl, a doll tucked in her arms.

Nylan studied the room again-lander couch, rocking chair, table, stool, bed-that was all.

Over the next uncounted days, he drank and slept and drank and slept, and finally ate, until one morning, he could finally leave the single lander couch with Istril's and Ayrlyn's help and sit in the rocking chair that had been moved beside the couch for him.

She set the striker next to the base of the lamp and plopped into the rocking chair.