Definition of Rockaby

1. a song used to lull a child to sleep [n -BIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockaby

rock sugar
rock sunfish
rock the boat
rock the house
rock tripe
rock tripes
rock up
rock varnish
rock wallaby
rock wool
rock wren
rockabies
rockabillies
rockabilly
rockable
rockaby (current term)
rockabye
rockabyes
rockathon
rockathons
rockaway
rockaways
rockbound
rockbridgeite
rockbun
rockbuns
rockburst
rockchuck
rockclimbing
rockclimbings

Literary usage of Rockaby

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children by Nora Archibald Smith (1903)
"rockaby, lullaby, rain on the clover! Tears on the eyelids that struggle and weep! rockaby, lullaby—bending it over ! Down on the mother world, ..."

2. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"Crooning so drowsily, crying so low, rockaby, lullaby, dear little rover! ... rockaby, lullaby, rain on the clover! (Tears on the eyelids that waver and ..."

3. Golden Treasury Readers by Charles Maurice Stebbins, Mary H. Coolidge (1912)
"2. Rose-Beautiful and the Chief Dame. 3. Rose-Beautiful and the Shepherd. 4. Rose-Beautiful before the Sultan. THE rockaby LADY The rockaby Lady from ..."

4. Golden Treasury Readers: Fourth Reader by Charles Maurice Stebbins (1912)
"2. Rose-Beautiful and the Chief Dame. 3. Rose-Beautiful and the Shepherd. 4. Rose-Beautiful before the Sultan. THE rockaby LADY The rockaby Lady from ..."

5. Practical Things with Simple Tools: A Book for Young Mechanics by Astra Cielo (1916)
"... A rockaby COASTER A SLED that will serve also as a rocking-horse may seem a novelty, but it has been in use for many years in England. ..."

6. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"rockaby, lullaby, rain on the clover, (Tears on the eyelids that waver ... rockaby, lullaby, dew on the clover, Dew on the eyes that will sparkle •* dawn ! ..."

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