The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rocking-chair \Rock"ing-chair`\, n. A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
Usage examples of "rocking-chair".
Several cushionless armchairs, such as were used in bar-rooms, two tables, a sideboard, half bar and half cupboard, and a rocking-chair comprised the furniture, and a few bear and buffalo skins covered the floor.
She dropped into the rocking-chair and looked about the room, trying to repeople it with those fair, young, friendly faces.
He glanced at the pieces of the unfinished cradle, then at the rocking-chair sections.
The new idea, whatever it was, was evidently not one to be hastily perfected, for the next morning when Celestina went down stairs, she found the jaded inventor seated moodily in a rocking-chair before the kitchen stove, his head in his hands.
Brigham Young usually sits in the middle of the parquette, in a rocking-chair, and with his hat on.
Scott, in her rocking-chair at the French window, when Josephine reentered the parlor as her sister walked briskly away.
After its initial panic the Library was now as alert and jittery as a long-tailed cat in a rocking-chair factory.
She sits in a peasant rocking-chair to one side of the dresser so that she can observe both the long, clean table and her collection.