rockaway

[ rok-uh-wey ]

/ ˈrɒk əˌweɪ /

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noun

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

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Origin of rockaway

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

Words nearby rockaway

rock-a-bye, “Rock-a-Bye, Baby”, Rockall, rock-and-roll, rock and rye, rockaway, rock bass, rock beauty, rock blenny, rock bolt, rock boot

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How to use rockaway in a sentence

Hughes, a middle-age black man from Far Rockaway in Queens, has never been a part of any protests himself but supports them.
‘They Let Him Off?’ Scenes from NYC in Disbelief|Jacob Siegel|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The annual battle to build the most outrageously creative sand castle was held on Rockaway Beach in Queens on Friday.
The 2013 Artist Sand Castle Competition Hosted by Creative Time (PHOTOS)|Isabel Wilkinson|August 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He spoke as if he lived in Rockaway as he suggested that Hurricane Sandy was something that the leaders should have anticipated.
Weiner’s Desperate Rockaway Trip|Michael Daly|August 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He has often acknowledged that the Rockaway vote was what put him in Congress in the first place.
Weiner’s Desperate Rockaway Trip|Michael Daly|August 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST

And with all of this comes a feeling that Rockaway is too often forgotten.
Weiner’s Desperate Rockaway Trip|Michael Daly|August 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Suddenly, as they were looking at the largest hotel of all, the one at Rockaway Beach, the steamer stopped.
To Nuremberg and Back|Amy Neally
The famous resorts of Rockaway and Coney Island are reached in from one to two hours by steamer.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life|James D. McCabe
A two-horse rockaway hove in sight, drew up and stopped at the outer limits of the Courthouse yard.
The Red Debt|Everett MacDonald
Many business men would go to the city driving a rockaway with a single horse.
Fifth Avenue|Arthur Bartlett Maurice

British Dictionary definitions for rockaway

rockaway

/ (ˈrɒkəˌweɪ) /

noun

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

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