Word Study
rocker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rocker has 7 senses
- rocker(n = noun.person) Array - an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle; Array is a kind of attendant, attender, tender
- rocker(n = noun.person) rock 'n' roll musician - a performer or composer or fan of rock music; Array is a kind of instrumentalist, musician, player
- rocker(n = noun.person) Array - a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles; Array is a member of bikers, rockers
- rocker(n = noun.artifact) rocking chair - a chair mounted on rockers; Array has particulars: boston rocker, platform rocker, shoofly
- rocker(n = noun.artifact) cradle - 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; Array is a kind of trough
- rocker(n = noun.artifact) Array - an ice skate with a curved blade; Array is a kind of ice skate
- rocker(n = noun.artifact) Array - a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro; Array is a part of cradle, hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse, rocker, rocking chair
Derived form verb rock2
has particulars: rock star
is a kind of adolescent, stripling, teen, teenager
is a kind of chair
has parts: rocker, round, rung, stave
Derived form verb rock1
is a kind of support
Derived form verb rock2
CIDE DICTIONARY
rocker, n.
- One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle. [1913 Webster]"It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy." [1913 Webster]
- One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks. [1913 Webster]
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water. [1913 Webster]
- A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse. [1913 Webster]
- A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair. [1913 Webster]
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle. [1913 Webster]
- Same as Rock shaft. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rocker, n.
1 a person or thing that rocks.
2 a curved bar or similar support, on which something can rock.
3 a rocking-chair.
4 Brit. a young devotee of rock music, characteristically associated with leather clothing and motor cycles.
5 a skate with a highly curved blade.
6 a switch constructed on a pivot mechanism operating between the 'on' and 'off' positions.
7 any rocking device forming part of a mechanism.
1 a person or thing that rocks.
2 a curved bar or similar support, on which something can rock.
3 a rocking-chair.
4 Brit. a young devotee of rock music, characteristically associated with leather clothing and motor cycles.
5 a skate with a highly curved blade.
6 a switch constructed on a pivot mechanism operating between the 'on' and 'off' positions.
7 any rocking device forming part of a mechanism.
Idiom
off one's rocker sl. crazy.
THESAURUS
rocker
burin, clarifier, colander, cradle, cribble, die, engraving tool, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, filter, graver, intaglio, lixiviator, metronome, needle, oscillator, pendulum, percolator, point, punch, purifier, refiner, refinery, riddle, rocking chair, rocking stone, scorper, screen, seal, seesaw, shuttle, shuttlecock, sieve, sifter, stamp, strainer, style, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetery-bender, vibrator, winnow, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine
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