rockaway

American  

[rok-uh-way] / ˈrɒk əˌweɪ /

noun

1. a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.

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rockaway British  

/ ˈrɒkəˌweɪ /

noun

1. a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, usually with two seats and a hard top

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Etymology

Origin of rockaway

1835–45, apparently named after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey

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Example Sentences

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rockaway

All the Tuckers looked rather aghast as they drew up near the rockaway from which Cousin Park was emerging, Pug clasped in her arms.

From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

In the carriage-house were three vehicles—a coach with rat-riddled upholstery and old-fashioned hoop-iron springs eaten through with rust, a rockaway and a surrey.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

Knowing this I took an anxious, economical view of the old rockaway heaving forward in the road ahead and vainly implored William to slacken his speed to a moral, ministerial gait.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

So soon as I had taken all the young ones and Mrs. Sparrowgrass out of the rockaway, I set to work to liberate the horse, who was choking very fast with the check-rein.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

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

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