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Rockers

noun

1.

Originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers. Synonym: bikers.

Rocker

noun

1.

An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle.

2.

A performer or composer or fan of rock music. Synonym: rock 'n' roll musician.

3.

A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles.

4.

A chair mounted on rockers. Synonym: rocking chair.

5.

A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold. Synonym: cradle.

6.

An ice skate with a curved blade.

7.

A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro.

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"Rockers" Quotes from Famous Books

... hoping with a half-fearing expectation, a sweet, threadlike wail trembled out toward her across the moonlit and shadowed space. Her father was tuning his violin. Her mother sat at his side, hushing Bobby in her arms. Betty could hear the sound of her rockers on the porch floor. Now the plaintive call of the violin came stronger, and she hastened back to curl up at her father's feet and listen. She closed her vision-seeing eyes and leaned against her father's knee. He felt the gentle pressure of his little daughter's ...

— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... reenforced by a couple of old boxes and two miners' easy chairs, a unique production, made by cutting down an empty flour barrel to something of the shape of an armed easy chair and attaching two rockers to the bottom. The seats of these chairs were often lined and stuffed in good shape and had the comfortable feel and rock of the more costly chairs of civilization—and what more need a miner ask? Along the side of the room opposite the door ran a double tier of rude bunks, one ...

— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil

... away they flew over hill and hollow till they reached the broad, wide open gates of the place known to everybody as Fernbrake, and skimming gaily down the long flower-bordered avenue, they stopped at the door of the beautiful house. The verandas looked inviting with their easy chairs and rockers, but no one was sitting there, so Cynthia followed her hostess shyly up the wide stairway, into a cool, airy room with white drapery at the windows, an upright piano standing open, and books everywhere, showing the taste of its occupants. Oh, those books! Cynthia's few story-books ...

— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various

... carpetless oak floor faintly mirroring the dancing flame-tongues and freckled with black indentations where fire-coals had popped out and died a leisurely death; half a dozen children romping in the background twilight; "split"-bottomed chairs here and there, some with rockers; a cradle—out of service, but waiting, with confidence; in the early cold mornings a snuggle of children, in shirts and chemises, occupying the hearthstone and procrastinating—they could not bear to leave that comfortable place and go out on the wind-swept floor-space ...

— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain

... easily done, the cane legs gliding like rockers over the well-polished deck, and the lad returned to his place to turn the winder where he had stood the line to dry. This process was going on rapidly, and he stopped bending over the apparatus to examine the hook and stout ...

— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn

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