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Definition of Rocketers
1. rocketer [n] - See also: rocketer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocketers
Literary usage of Rocketers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Hints on Shooting: Being a Treatise on the Shot Gun and Its by Basil Tozer (1887)
"Rocketers " are likewise sometimes hard to shoot. ... It is vain to endeavour to
shoot rocketers while they are ascending in a direct perpendicular line, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... flight is greatest in coverts, until it sometimes becomes almost perpendicular,
birds rising in this way being called " rocketers. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
""On they went," says Walker (who got his description from eye-witnesses), " in
solid, compact order, the men hurrahing and the rocketers covering their ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... but if you find that the head-keeper placed him where " the rocketers " came
highest and fastest, and, if you had leisure to observe his performance, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"With this view, the 4th, 44th, and 21st regiments, as well as the battalion of
marines and the corps of rocketers, were landed, ..."
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