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Definition of Rocking
1. a. Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
Definition of Rocking
1. Adjective. (informal) excellent. The best ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of ''rock'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rocking
1. rock [v] - See also: rock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocking
Literary usage of Rocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The combination of the mode of suspending by the clevis with the mode of securing
by the bolt is tbe same,whether the sole has a lateral rocking motion or ..."
2. Cornwall: Its Mines and Miners ; with Sketches of Scenery ; Designed as a by John R. Leifchild (1855)
"Even restored rocking | stones, like restored Popes and Sovereigns, ...
Inquiring readers will ask me, how did the rocking-stone ecome so nicely balanced at ..."
3. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1904)
"The simplest case is that of Trevelyan's rocking Bar. This is a brass "bar" of
the shape shown ... Trevelyan's rocking Bar; face a, section 6; about J size. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Recent designs for suspension bridges also use rocking or flexible steel towers
with the cables made fast to their tops in place of rigid towers with cables ..."
5. The History of Ireland by Thomas Moore (1835)
"Those monuments, too, known by the name of rocking Stones, and found in Ireland
as well as in Cornwall and Wales, appear in some respects to resemble that ..."
6. Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys by Henry Marion Howe (1906)
"APPENDIX IV Some Metallurgical Novelties 336 A. ROE'S rocking PUDDLING FURNACE,* Fig
... Longitudinal Vertical Section of Roe's rocking Puddling Furnace. ..."
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