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

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 leaned back against one side of the rockaway, and answered, while the old horse walked leisurely on—, 'I have looked at the subject from a new point of view, Prim.'

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

Many business men would go to the city driving a rockaway with a single horse.

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

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

On the way home, a little bit of talk occurred in the rockaway, which may be reported.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan