rockaway
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rockaway
1835–45, apparently named after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey
Example Sentences
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On the way home, a little bit of talk occurred in the rockaway, which may be reported.
From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner
Therefore it was on various accounts an event when the rockaway hove in sight, and the grey horse stopped before the gate.
From Diana by Susan Warner
We always had to send for Cousin Park in a great old sea-going rockaway that was never pulled out of the carriage house except on state occasions.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
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
His searching eyes lit upon a rockaway carriage, with the tongue propped up, standing at the roadside some two hundred feet distant.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
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