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

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 Harris, Corra

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

A two-horse rockaway hove in sight, drew up and stopped at the outer limits of the Courthouse yard.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

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

From The Dorrance Domain by Wells, Carolyn

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 MacDonald, Everett