rockaway

American  

[rok-uh-wey] / 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

Example Sentences

Rollo had driven the rockaway down and was going to drive back.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

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 Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Then he climbed into the rockaway again, and stood up to see if he could anywhere see the light of a house.

From A Round Dozen by Coolidge, Susan

There was a rockaway first, then two buggies, then two large spring wagons, and then a buckboard.

From The Dorrance Domain by Wells, Carolyn

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 Rives, Hallie Erminie