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rockaway

American

[rok-uh-way] / ˈrɒk əˌweɪ /

noun

a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.

rockaway British

/ ˈrɒkəˌweɪ /

noun

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

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rockaway

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

From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner

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 Everett MacDonald

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

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

From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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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