rockaway
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rockaway
1835–45, apparently named after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey
Example Sentences
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So before the hour for the second service came, they stole quietly away, their rockaway wheels cutting the trail left by the erring young people who had gone before them.
From Clover and Blue Grass by Eliza Calvert Hall
Rollo leaned back against one side of the rockaway, and answered, while the old horse walked leisurely on—, 'I have looked at the subject from a new point of view, Prim.'
From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner
Then I went back to the rockaway, but met Mrs. Sparrowgrass and the children on the road coming to meet me.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The next moment I heard something breaking away in front, and then the rockaway gave a lurch and stood still.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
There was a rockaway first, then two buggies, then two large spring wagons, and then a buckboard.
From The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells
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