rockaway
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rockaway
1835–45, apparently named after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey
Example Sentences
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Many business men would go to the city driving a rockaway with a single horse.
From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett
The mare crashed into the rockaway on one side and the bay shattered the swingletree on the other with the forewheel of our buggy.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra
At that moment we rounded a curve in the road, and in the hot dust ahead there came to view a heavy, old-fashioned rockaway drawn slowly by a pair of sunburned plow-horses.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra
Rollo had driven the rockaway down and was going to drive back.
From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan
We arranged our food supply, took the old family rockaway, and set out early in the morning, as happy a pair of boys as ever started on a project of pleasure.
From Money Island by Howell, Andrew Jackson
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